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Welcome to The Newsletter of Alva Noto, Carsten Nicolai, and NOTON — July 2020

New Releases

N-049 . Alva Noto . Xerrox Vol. 4

  • Format: Digital, CD, 2×12" Vinyl
  • Release Date: 19 June 2020

Following Xerrox Vol. 1 (2007), Vol. 2 (2009), Vol. 3 (2015), Carsten Nicolai continues the pentalogy eluding the accuracy and precise sound design for which he’s renowned, and turning to a more harmony-driven composition technique.

Unlike the previous Xerrox albums, whose starting point is a set of samples extracted from external sources and fragments of recordings, Vol. 4 compounds under a unified cinematic soundscape, warm chords, thrumming digital ambiences, liquified electronics, drones, and noise sustained by floods of strings. The tension between the organic warmth and static curves, broads tones into distant roars and electronic cascade of sounds. While Alva Noto's oeuvre is predominantly affiliated with pristine sound design, Xerrox holds more intimate gestures and emotional sensibility. This fourth volume shuns further from the conceptualism and orderliness of prior musical outputs, ranging from heart-warming elegies to mind-bending sci-fi projections in extrasolar territories.

Music Video - Xerrox Voyage

Music Video – Xerrox Canaux

Exhibitions

Double Lives, Visual Artists Making Music

  • Group Exhibition @ Bundeskunsthalle
  • 23 June - 18 October 2020
  • The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Museumsmeile Bonn, Helmut-Kohl-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn, DE

Articles

Alva Noto on Xerrox IV and COVID - Luca D. Majer

Playlist

Alva Noto - NOTON Releases Playlist on Spotify

Xerrox Canaux on Amazon Music - Ambient Dreams Playlist

Xerrox Île on Apple Music - Pure Ambient Playlist

Xerrox Île on Spotify - Ambient Playlist

NOTON Releases

N-048

A Forest

Alva Noto

Vinyl, Digital

N-047

Alphabet

Alva Noto + Anne-James Chaton

CD, Digital

N-046

Two

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-045R

UNIEQAV Remixes

Alva Noto

Digital

N-045V

UNIEQAV Videos

Alva Noto

Digital

N-045

UNIEQAV

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-044

Glass

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-043

Live 2002

Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital