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Alva Noto

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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.


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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.


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#both #careful #certain #depth #each

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.


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#choose #go #inevitably #limit #off

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.


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#coincidence #decision #every #individual #nothing

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.


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#always #arrange #case #expresses #hard

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.


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#different #generators #i #i do #know

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.


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#choice #coincidence #complex #decision #decision making

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.


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#conclusions #content #different #different things #lead

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?


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#coincidence #come #creativity #general #like

There is always room for coincidence.


— Alva Noto


#coincidence #room






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with Zeitkratzer
Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai: Electronics — 2008 (Zeitkratzer Records)


Compilation appearances (exclusive/non-albums tracks)
"Monophaser 4" from "V. DVD release.

Nicolai’s work exposes the limitations and potential beauty and creativity possible within strict logical systems. Carsten Nicolai also works as a visual artist.

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