During his first live tour in Japan, Carsten Nicolai met Ryuichi Sakamoto in Tokyo. A year after it happened that he was asked to remix material from Sakamoto for the Japanese magazine Code Unfinished. “… the material that was given to me was already layered with digital effects. From one little clean piano piece I made the first track. Those simple piano chords I combined with a clear rhythm constellation. … somehow Ryuichi was very surprised and really liked my work. Weeks later he sent me another specially for this project recorded track.” This was the beginning of an almost two … read more
During his first live tour in Japan, Carsten Nicolai met Ryuichi Sakamoto in Tokyo. A year after it happened that he was asked to remix material from… read more
During his first live tour in Japan, Carsten Nicolai met Ryuichi Sakamoto in Tokyo. A year after it happened that he was asked to remix material from Sakamoto for the Japanese magazine C… read more
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto(坂本龍一) is a collaboration project between the German minimal artist Carsten Nicolai and the famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. In this co-operation two different generations meet and share the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. Alva Noto processes the sounds from Sakamoto's piano, creating a mixture of solo piano and glitchy micro electronic sounds. Noto and Sakamoto have 6 releases to date, of which every one has been released on the Nicolai co-owned Raster-Noton label: "Vrioon" (album, 20… read more
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto(坂本龍一) is a collaboration project between the German minimal artist Carsten Nicolai and the famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. In this co-operation two d… read more
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto(坂本龍一) is a collaboration project between the German minimal artist Carsten Nicolai and the famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. In this co-operation two different generations meet and share the idea o… read more