Date
Sunday 19 October 2008 at 8:00pm
Location
Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre
Rua 24 de Outubro, 112,
Porto Alegre,
90510-000,
Brazil
Tel: Tel: +55 51 32227832
Link
Description
* Entrada gratuita para o show e para o workshop que acontecerá no dia anterior, 18 de outubro.
Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complemenary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto. He is a member of the music groups Signal (with Frank Bretschneider AKA Komet and Olaf Bender AKA Byetone) and Cyclo (with Ryoji Ikeda).
Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Sound is changed and evolved into time and space and transformed by looping oscillators and tone generators. Through these processes the essence of pure electricity is made audible. He works without sequencers, but mathematically edits his work to give his compositions precise rhythmic structures. Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements of the work and these sound sources are applied to the rhythmic groove of Hip-Hop and R&B. The sounds of electronic information transmission such as fax tones, modem sounds and telephone pops and clicks are sampled and organised into loops to which Nicolai adds longer electronic tones in the background and foreground as the piece progresses.
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