alva noto

carsten nicolai signal aesthetics
artist carsten nicolai
alias alva noto
label raster-noton
origin karl-marx-stadt, ddr
method signal processing as composition
collaboration ryuichi sakamoto

sound reduced to its most elemental form. sine waves, white noise, digital clicks rendered with surgical precision. the space between signal and silence becomes the composition itself. each frequency a deliberate architectural decision. nothing ornamental. everything structural.

02 grid topology
03 selected catalog
r-n 001 prototypes 2000
r-n 025 transform 2001
r-n 058 xerrox vol. 1 2007
r-n 091 univrs 2011
r-n 122 utp_ 2008
r-n 150 xerrox vol. 3 2015
r-n 178 glass 2018
04 frequency visualizer
freq: 2.500 hz / amp: 0.500 / mouse x controls frequency
sine
square
noise floor
nicolai + sakamoto

vrioon. insen. revep. utp_. glass.
piano reduced to sine. signal becomes melody.
the collaboration as interference pattern.