Alva Noto
Sign in to saveAlso known as Carsten Nicolai, Nicolai Carsten, Noto, Aleph-1
German artist & musician (born 1965)
Film & TV
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Known for
- Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House — Self2016
- Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern: utp_2008
- Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen Live — Self2006
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1965-09-18
ambientdroneelectronicglitchidmmicromontage
Discography
- Prototypes2000
- Transform2001
- For2006
- Xerrox, Vol.1 (reMASTER)2007
- unitxt2008
- Xerrox, Vol.2 (reMASTER)2009
- For 22010
- univrs2011
- Décade2012
- Xerrox, Vol.3 (reMASTER)2015
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 224,168
- Total plays
- 4,987,151
Tags
glitchminimalambientexperimentalelectronic
Behind the Alva Noto moniker we find Carsten Nicolai, one of the most important sound explorers of our time. A student of Architecture in his formative years Alva Noto a visual artist who has forged a minimal aesthetic and a conceptual approach to his art. Sound is changed and evolved into time and space and transformed by tone oscillators and looping generators. Through these processes the essence of pure electricity is made audible. He works without sequencers <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carsten
- Family name
- Nicolai
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Chemnitz
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- documenta x
- Genre
- electronica
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Record label
- Mille Plateaux
- Official website
- www.carstennicolai.de
- Image
- Carsten-nicolai-2009-wuschanski.jpg
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- Commons category
- Carsten Nicolai
- date of birth
- 1965-09-18
- has works in the collection
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- pseudonym
- Alva Noto
- social media followers
- 12890
- described at URL
- www.villamassimo.de/de/stipendiaten/carsten-nicolai
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