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Welcome to The Newsletter of Alva Noto, Carsten Nicolai, and NOTON — August 2022 #2

New Releases

N-053S1 . Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto . City Radieuse (Single)

  • Format: Digital Single
  • Release Date: 19 August 2022

Available on

» Digital Platforms

City Radieuse was composed for the 2012 short cinematic essay titled Cité Radieuse and part of Carsten Nicolai’s future past perfect series. The video shot at le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation in Nantes (called ‘cité radieuse’) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings. The film’s narrative unfolds through a sequence of images tracking the apartments’ indoor space and details, and points to the different benchmarks of standardized production as they correlate to their environment and its inhabitants.

Video: carsten nicolai . future past perfect pt. 02 (cité radieuse)

N-053 . Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto . Revep (reMASTER)

  • Format: CD, Vinyl, Digital
  • Release Date: 26 August 2022

Pre-Order is Available on

» NOTON SHOP

Initially released in 2006, Revep is the third collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the third installment of V.I.R.U.S.’s five albums series.

Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album’s recordings are accompanied by three new compositions titled City Radieuse, Veru 1, and Veru 2.

City Radieuse was composed for the 2012 short cinematic essay titled Cité Radieuse and part of Carsten Nicolai’s future past perfect series. The video shot at le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation in Nantes (called ‘cité radieuse’) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings. The film’s narrative unfolds through a sequence of images tracking the apartments’ indoor space and details, and points to the different benchmarks of standardized production as they correlate to their environment and its inhabitants.

Video: Carsten Nicolai . Future Past Perfect Pt.2 (Cité Radieuse)

The album’s original recordings resulted from musical exchanges that began with Vrioon and revolved around a collaborative arrangement of Sakamoto’s classic Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, the theme music to the 1983 movie starring David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto himself.

In Revep, the piano takes the lead while the padded bass and pitched electronic frequencies mark sudden change. Deeply evocative and effortlessly colliding worlds of analog beauty and digital mastery, this album is considered another indispensable record from the duo’s ongoing collaboration.

Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai
Mastering by Bo @ Calyx

Tracklist

  • 1. Siisx
  • 2. Mur
  • 3. ax Mr. L.
  • 4. City Radieuse
  • 5. Veru 1
  • 6. Veru 2

About the V.I.R.U.S. box:

  • The V.I.R.U.S. box will be available in fall 2022. It will be released as a paper design slipcase without the albums inside and is designed to accommodate the five V.I.R.U.S. albums on vinyl (four double LPs and one LP) and CD (five units).

Vinyl

  • Price: 25 EUR (excl. VAT)
  • 1 × 12 Inch 'Black' Vinyl, 33.3 rpm, MP3 Download

CD

  • Price: 18 EUR (excl. VAT)
  • 1 × Compact Disc, Special Folding Cover, MP3 Download

Current Exhibitions

Carsten Nicolai . Transmitter / Receiver – The Machine and The Gardener

Solo Exhibition @ Haus der Kunst

  • 03 June 2022 - 21 August 2022
  • Haus der Kunst
  • Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Nebelkammer

Group Exhibition @ Kunsthalle Mainz

  • 10 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
  • Kunsthalle Mainz
  • Am Zollhafen 3–5, 55118 Mainz, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Fire Organ

@ Feuerorgel-Kapelle-Krobitz

  • Opened Day: 03 July, 07 August, 04 & 11 September 2022
  • Feuerorgel-Kapelle-Krobitz
  • 07806 Weira, DE

Carsten Nicolai . Fades & Chroma Wellenform

@ Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022

  • 30 July - 04 September 2022 (Except Tue & Wed)
  • 05 Sept - 13 Nov 2022 (only Weekends & Holidays)
  • Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art
  • 1528-2 Kakuma, Tokamachi-City, Niigata, JAPAN

Playlists

Spotify

WORSHIP THE GLITCH

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

PIANO PUR

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

RAW MINIMAL TECHNO

Alva Noto's Artist Pick

Spotify

Alva Noto

NOTON Playlist

NOTON Releases

N-052

Insen (reMASTER)

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-051

Vrioon (reMASTER)

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N+002

WYGG [While Your Guitar Gently]

COH

CD, Digital

N-056

HYbr:ID I

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N+001

IVIC

Saele Valese

CD, Vinyl, Digital

N-049

Xerrox Vol. 4

Alva Noto

CD, Vinyl, Digital

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