Alva Noto
Alva Noto
Carsten Nicolai, known as Alva Noto, is a German musician. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender, Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoji Ikeda, and Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he composed the score for the 2015 film The Revenant...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
CountryGermany
consume time
You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.
artistic
Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
case thinks using visual
One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one.
artistic subject work
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
generators running sounds
I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
inevitably options soon starting
Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.
art finally integrated musically realized since subject tapes until
I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.