![]() ![]() Utp, a live collaboration with Sakamoto and Ensemble Modern, was released as a CD and DVD the same year. In 2008, Alva Noto released Unitxt, an album of intense rhythmic glitch that featured a collaboration with French sound poet Anne-James Chaton. 1, an album of frayed ambient pieces, appeared in 2007, as did a self-titled album under the one-off pseudonym Aleph-1. Insen, a second collaboration with Sakamoto, appeared in 2005, followed by Rev EP and the Insen Live DVD in 2006. ![]() ![]() In 2004, a second collaboration with Opiate was released, and Alva Noto released a trio of particularly bracing EPs: Transrapid, Transvision, and Transspray. The album was a critical success and led to several further recordings and performances between the two artists. Vrioon featured soothing piano melodies from Sakamoto atop relatively subdued and accessible glitch arrangements from Nicolai. In 2002, Alva Noto released the first of several collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Other releases during the year included an album with Ryoji Ikeda under the name Cyclo, the more atmospheric Opto Files (with Opiate), and Uniform, a collaboration with Scanner that was composed for an exhibit opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Transform followed in 2001, adding a more rhythmic base to Nicolais sonic experiments. With that conceptual masterwork out of the way, Nicolai expanded his moniker to Alva Noto for 2000s Prototypes (Mille Plateaux), a 50-minute album of untitled sound collages constructed from the actual sound of electrical hums and clicks, amplified and arranged into a series of discrete movements that move beyond mere ambient music into a new realm of environmental music. Some of these recordings were split releases with Rastermusic, leading to the formation of Raster-Noton in 1999.ĭuring that year, the label released 20 to 2000, a monthly series of 20-minute CDs intended to interpret the final 20 minutes of the 20th century. Nicolai is the founder of the Noton label, which merged with Olaf Benders Rastermusic to form Raster-Noton for two decades before the labels split in 2017.Īfter debuting with a 1995 LP released as a private press for one of his own exhibitions, Nicolai adopted the Noto pseudonym in 1996, releasing several CDs and vinyl EPs of sparse, hypnotic clicks and cuts. As Alva Noto, Nicolai has collaborated with a wide range of other musicians, including Scanner, Iggy Pop, Mika Vainio, and most notably, Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he has released several albums, including the acclaimed soundtrack to the 2015 film The Revenant. ![]()
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