The German artist/musician carsten nicolai [noto, alva noto] uses electronic sound and visual art as a kind of hybrid- tool to create his own microscopic view of creative processes. his world looks more like a laboratory - constantly morphing in space and time, influenced by the impulses of the media world, sound - the message as code - becomes, the primary theme.

Biography
1965 born in karl-marx-stadt (former gdr)
1985 -1990 studies of landscape design
1994 founded noton.archiv für ton und nichtton
1999 label unit raster-noton.de






f117.tiff - Vibrö 4 (track 14)
... speed of data-flow is equivalent to the speed of our time. in an era when virtual products of our ideas are expanding, we are simultaneously positioning a calm point in which to settle ourselves.
a vector graphic - a storage file, is translated into raw audio data as the source material from which constellations of diffused sound start to form. special emphasis is put on the rhythmic aspect of the digitalised and rasterised data. the tool of the transformation reveals itself by the structure of the recording.
by restricting itself to simple and transparent mechanisms, this process becomes independent from existing standards and gains autonomy. ...

all sound carsten nicolai, recorded 2004 at r-n modul berlin raster-noton.archiv für ton und nichtton 2004
this track has already been released on alva noto - transspray (r-n 63)





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