Carsten Nicolai
| Carsten Nicolai | |
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Nicolai as Noto, playing live at MUTEK 2004
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carsten Nicolai |
| Also known as | Aleph-1, Alva Noto, Noto |
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September 18, 1965 Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany |
| Origin | Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany and Berlin, Germany |
| 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.
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.
Nicolai has recently written an opera, Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, in collaboration with Michael Nyman.
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.
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