Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) at Ars Electronica 2010. Visual developed with Wuestenarchitekten (Markus Heckmann).
Alva Noto
visual artist/electronic musician carsten nicolai (born 1965 in karl-marx-stadt) performs and records using the pseudonyms noto and alva noto. described as ‘metal machine music of a most beautiful kind’, nicolai’s powerfully synaesthetic live performances combine minimal electronic sounds and real-time visualisations. alva noto has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces and has won a number of highly regarded prizes for art and electronic music. he collaborated with the likes of ryuichi sakamoto, blixa bargeld, ryoji ikeda, mika vainio, michael nyman and thomas knak. with olaf bender and frank bretschneider he founded the record label raster-noton in 1999 and runs the pioneering label ‘supergroup’ signal.
