Alva Noto

Carsten Nicolai

Nicolai as Noto, playing live at MUTEK 2004
Background information
Birth name Carsten Nicolai
Also known as Aleph-1, Alva Noto, Noto
Born (1965-09-18) September 18, 1965
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Origin Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany and Berlin, Germany[1]
Genres Electronica, glitch, microsound
Instruments Synthesizer, keyboards, laptop, guitar, percussion
Labels Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Line
Associated acts Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cyclo, Opto, Signal, Ryoji Ikeda, Blixa Bargeld
Website www.alvanoto.com

Carsten Nicolai (September 18, 1965), known as Alva Noto, is a German musician. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), 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.

Life and career

Nicolai was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany (then Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony, East Germany) in 1965. He studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing art. In 1999 he founded the electronic music record label Raster-Noton.[1]

Nicolai has recently written an opera, Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, in collaboration with Michael Nyman.[2]

Nicolai has performed and created installations in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including the Guggenheim, New York, the SF MoMA, Modern Art Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern and Venice Biennale, Italy. As a member (and co-founder) of the Raster-Noton label he was responsible for the acclaimed CD series '20 to 2000' that went on to win the Golden Nica prize at Prix Ars Electronica, 2000.

Carsten Nicolai also works as a visual artist. Using the principles of Cymatics he often visualizes sound. In 2013, Nicolai participated as a visual artist in Noise, an official collateral show of the 55th Venice Biennale of Art.[3]

Discography

Solo studio albums

Extended plays

Compilation albums

Soundtrack albums

Collaborations

With Ryuichi Sakamoto, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto
With Ryoji Ikeda, as "Cyclo."
With Scanner (Robin Rimbaud)
With Blixa Bargeld, as ANBB
With Opiate (Thomas Knak), as Opto
With Zeitkratzer
With Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor
With Olaf Bender (Byetone), as Diamond Version
With Iggy Pop and Tarwater

Compilation appearances (exclusive/non-albums tracks)

Remixes

Installations, etc.

References

External links

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