Carsten nicolai september 18, 1965, known as alva noto, is a german musician. Heretics is a collaboration between sound artist annejames chaton, exsonic youth guitarist thurston moore, and ex guitarist andy moor. The track is based on a number of 208 threeletter acronyms set in alphabetical order, creating a random narrative. Their debut album features chatons spoken word mutterings, which range from repeating a series of numbers to looped one word phrases via the annunciation of phonetic sounds, carefully filtered and layered into dark but inviting drones, cold wave and ambient experimentalism. Their debut album features chaton s spoken word mutterings, which range from repeating a series of numbers to looped one word phrases via the annunciation of phonetic sounds, carefully filtered and layered into dark but inviting drones, cold wave and ambient experimentalism. Memotone escapes to the forest in where memory is traded video signal path. It would be amazing to catch an audiovisual performance of. More than 1200000 cds, dvds, vinyls, games, technics, equipment and toys since 1991 at your service. In another, more conceptual example, alva notos uni acronyn, video flickers between recognizable brand logos or iconic imagery, lingering on one when vocalist annejames chatons deadpan recitation of letter clusters corresponds. A former architecture student and a visual artist interested in the physical qualities of sound, the german musician is part of an artistic movement whose work explores the intersection between art.
The album channels alva notos trademark sounds into jittery, funky music that loses none of the complexity of his more challenging work. French voiceartist annejames chaton appears at the center of the album, on uni acronym reciting 208 threeletter acronyms in alphabetical order to tightly structured notoesque signature rhythm0 the video for this amazing track can be seen here. They researched and created the material for heretics during a residency in the french port of st nazaire, in july 2014. Alva noto licensed to youtube by the state51 conspiracy on behalf of noton. It was the 19 th of december when mr carsten nicolai aka alva noto presented his latest piece univrs uniscope version.
Gaze into the geometric sound and visual world of alva noto. After the first 10 tracks that are the core recordings of unitxt, there are 15 more tracks generated from converting pure data from programs, jpgs or other digital files into sound material. Our goal is to provide high quality video, tv streams, music, software, documents or any other shared files for free. The unieqav album captures some of this live excitement and, following unitxt and univrs, completes alva notos uni trilogy. How to download ra 276 alva noto files to my device. The connection between early representations of the world and those of the digital era are drawn out in a new multimedia project by german electronic musician carsten nicolai, aka alva noto, and french poet and performer annejames chaton. Alva noto reflects on his collaborations with ryuichi. Poet and performer annejames chaton and electronic musician carsten nicolai aka alva noto perform their new multimedia project, alphabet, an exploration for decoding the spaces. Aside from the covers spelling uni when placed together, they share the berlin artists careerlong predilection for raw tonal bursts and computergenerated glitches, sounds informed by an interest in the limits of human hearing and.
Oct 10, 2011 french voiceartist annejames chaton appears at the center of the album, on uni acronym reciting 208 threeletter acronyms in alphabetical order to tightly structured notoesque signature rhythm0 the video for this amazing track can be seen here. Nov 21, 2011 nobody else had the aspect ratio right. He reads the contents of nicolais wallet credit cards, drivers license, receipts, etc. Click download file button or copy ra 276 alva noto url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Alva noto and french poet and sound artist annejames chaton have teamed up as alphabet. Alva noto would like to thank annejames chaton for his ongoing inspiration, martin l. Sounds from phantom islands faitiche a winged victory for the sullen.
Achim szepanski, anne james chaton, ask the experts, berghain, daniel libeskind, ilpo, mika vainio, mille plateaux, noton, pan sonic. For those people who are not accustomed with alva notos work and career, he is the cofounder together with olaf bender aka byetone, of the experimental music. Hop frog or the eight chained orangoutangs youtube na noqu salusalu. Under the shared moniker of alphabet, the longterm collaborators revisit isidores etymologies to decode the spaces between signs and signals in the contemporary age. Garlands in fiji garland magazine tutorial pascal vetores youtube. Anne james chaton with alva noto and andy moor decade 2012 rapidshare depositfiles mediafire torrent. Alphabet is the pairing of french poet and sound artist anne james chaton with former rastonnoton man alva noto. Alva notoanne james chaton alphabet vinyl at juno records. The album was mastered by rashad becker at clunk, berlin. They created music that exists between what was, what is, and what it could be. Provided to youtube by the state51 conspiracy quellie partie.
Gore for providing a sample for the track uni rec, and daniel miller for advice and support. Silhouettes flicking in dead lights ten thousand degrees fahrenheit we burst in solid centigrade heat transfer amplified kinetic figures all around dangerous girls in overdrive blood pressure widening our eyes ecstatic, polarized watch now, the sun i s fading away and still the skyline is glowing in bright white lets drown in such an assembly lets yell until it all turn to black doomsday. Alphabet is the pairing of french poet and sound artist annejames chaton with former rastonnoton man alva noto. Dec 04, 2019 alva noto opens up about his improvisational album two recorded live with ryuichi sakamoto, plus his collaborative work with sound poet anne james chaton. Our goal is to provide highquality video, tv streams, music, software. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading. This routine features in alva notos live performances of the album, and can be seen on a dvd that comes with a special edition version of univrs, which will be available through rasternotons website. This routine features in alva noto s live performances of the album, and can be seen on a dvd that comes with a special edition version of univrs, which will be available through rasternotons website. Ha collaborat amb alva noto i andy moor the ex, entre daltres.
The result is a brilliantly orchestrated sequence of sounds and visual patterns that has a multisensory impact on the spectator. Poet and performer annejames chaton and electronic musician carsten nicolai aka alva noto perform their new multimedia project, alphabet decoding the spaces between signs and signals. The connection between early representations of the world and those of the digital era are drawn out in a new multimedia project by german electronic musician carsten nicolai, aka alva noto, and french poet and performer anne james chaton. Mar 22, 2018 posted by xlr8r staff march 22, 2018 august 17, 2019 posted in ask the experts, features, front page tags. Alva noto beautifully exchanges austerity for cinematographic lushness with the remarkably widescreen 3rd volume in his xerrox series. Alva noto opens up about his new improvisational album two recorded live with ryuichi sakamoto at the sydney opera house, plus his collaborative work with sound poet annejames chaton. Jan 02, 20 univrs is a conceptual journey into sound and visions. Their debut album features chatons spoken word mutterings, which range from repeating a series of numbers to looped one word phrases via the annunciation of phonetic sounds, carefully filtered and layered into dark but. Zoe mc pherson on mangling sound and visual collaboration. Recorded over the past couple of years, this albums inception came about during the raster noton tour of japan between 2006 and 2007, only to be finally revised and edited. The performance takes its inspiration from the etymologies of isidore of seville a gargantuan encyclopaedia from the seventh century and the most widely. I cant found any information about this project in whole internet.
Face to phase dont be afraid recordings aziza brahim. This is also seen in the coverart for each, which, when combined, form a triptych spelling uni. Which is ironic, as the album is one of the few if not the only alva noto releases that feature vocals. For the track uni acronym, alva noto works again with the french vocal artist annejames chaton. Brit seaton talks to carsten nicolai and annejames chaton about how. That must have been some night in tokyowere still reaping the rewards over a decade later. Alva noto reflects on his collaborations with ryuichi sakamoto. The album unieqav is the third and final installment in his uni trilogy after 2008s unitxt and 2011s univrs. Carsten nicolai, better known as alva noto, has answered your questions this month nicolai, born september 18, 1965, is considered one of the most important sound explorers of recent times. The standard package includes an audio cd, a book of texts, and a dvd containing a flyonthewall documentary of heretics. Alva noto is the performing name of german electronic musician. With the addition of exsonic youth guitarist, singer and songwriter thurston moore, annejames chaton and andy moors more than a decade long collaboration becomes an exciting trio.
Alva noto opens up about his improvisational album two recorded live with. The result is a formally consistent, standalone artwork tinged with wry commentary about consumerism. Through meticulous waveform editing, alva noto reduces and refines sounds to their sleekest possible forms. Gaze into the geometric sound and visual world of alva. Alva noto would like to thank anne james chaton for his ongoing inspiration, martin l. Mar 16, 2018 alva noto is the performing name of german electronic musician. Sonar istanbul 2018 performance of this show, photo feli gutierres. The audiovisual performance of univrs is based on the realtime manipulation of software generated test images by audio signals.
These pure sounds idealize machinemade sound, perhaps not surprising for someone whose favorite piece of software is an audio signal tester. Alva noto captures the univrs on new album fact magazine. It is not so frequent to get the chance to attend an audiovisual performance in my hometown catania. The univrs uniscope version was developed with the touchdesigner software in close cooperation with derivative in toronto, canada.
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