ALVA NOTO

Here's an excerpt from Scanner TV on one of my favorite artists, ALVA NOTO aka Carsten Nicolai. His Xerox albums and recent work with Ryuichi Sakamoto are some of the greatest electronic pieces ever made. I dig his approach to sound and space. Like if Thelonius Monk had a laptop.

Alva Noto: Tarkovski Revisited from scannerFM on Vimeo.

Carsten Nicolai estuvo en Barcelona para ponerle música a su particular versión del "Solaris" de Tarkovski, y de paso nos habló de sus proyectos

And here's a recent live clip, courtesy of playgroundmag.net:

SONAR09 Raster noton presents: ALVA NOTO from Playgroundmedia on Vimeo.

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