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NOTON is a record label founded in 1994 by German artist and composer Carsten Nicolai, celebrated for its minimalist electronic works and groundbreaking collaborations across music and visual art.
From 2000 to 2017, the label collaborated with Raster Music and co-founded the genre-defining Raster-Noton. During this period, it became a leading name in the experimental, glitch, and sound art scene, releasing albums, publications, and installation works that merged the fields of music, science, and visual art.
The label has released pioneering projects by Alva Noto, alongside longtime collaborators such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Blixa Bargeld, and Anne-James Chaton. Among its standout releases are Alva Noto’s ongoing HYbr:ID, the five-installment Xerrox series (2007–2024), the critically acclaimed five-album V.I.R.U.S. collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, and reinterpretations of The Cure’s 1980 single A Forest and David Bowie’s 1977 song Subterraneans, featuring contributions from Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski
carsten nicolai, born in karl-marx-stadt in 1965, is a german artist and musician based in berlin. he is part of an artist generation who work intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science, seeking to overcome the separation of man’s sensory perceptions by making scientific phenomena like sound and light frequencies perceivable to both eyes and ears. influenced by scientific reference systems, nicolai often engages with mathematical patterns, such as grids and codes, as well as error, random and self-organizing structures, and his installations have a minimalistic aesthetic whose elegance and consistency are highly intriguing. following his participation in important international exhibitions like documenta x and the 49th and 50th venice biennales, nicolai’s works were shown worldwide in extensive solo and group exhibitions.
for his musical output, Carsten Nicolai employs a pseudonym, Alva Noto. with a strong adherence to reductionism, he leads his sound experiments into the field of electronic music, creating his own code of signs, acoustics and visual symbols. his diverse musical projects include remarkable collaborations with ryuichi sakamoto, ryoji ikeda (cyclo.), blixa bargeld and mika vainio. nicolai has toured extensively as alva noto through europe, asia, south america and the us. among other venues, he has performed at new york’s solomon r. guggenheim museum, the san francisco museum of modern art, the centre pompidou in paris and london’s tate modern. most recently, nicolai scored the music for alejandro gonzález iñárritu’s latest film, 'the revenant' which was nominated for a golden globe, bafta, and critics choice award.
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