greetings all,
do not miss this opportunity to see Carsten Nicolai perform this
friday, 8pm at the Guggenheim.
to those not in nyc, you can view it via cybercast, please read below
for further information.
his new album alva.noto 'prototypes' is available late-March on Mille Plateaux.
contact Jon Berry for further information.
apologies for the mass emailing.
e-Flux.com, Thing.net and the Guggenheim Museum are pleased to
present a cybercast of
a live sound performance - Prototype 1, by Carsten Nicolai (aka
noto), one of Germanyís
leading young artists.
The performance will take place at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Friday,
February 25th, 2000 at 8 pm eastern standard time. The cybercast
will commence at that
time and will be available to audiences for the following 3 weeks 24
hours a day.
To listen to the performance tune in at:
http://www.e-flux.com/nicolai or
http://bbs.thing.net
Bio:
Born in East Germanyís Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1965, Carsten Nicolai lives
and works in
Berlin. His work has been extensively exhibited in Europe, including
documeta X, and
more recently the Liverpool Biannial.
Critical voices:
Like the sound work of Japanese artists Ryoji Ikeda, Taku Sugimoto, Merzbow and
Aube, Nicolai is working to restore electricity in a more pure form
to the creation of sound
art. In parallel with, and enabled by more popular movements in
Techno, he avoids the
traditional mediators of electricity such as mass produced drum
machines, synthesizers
and computer sequencers, he uses tone and sinewave generators (see
his collaboration with
Mika Vainio, aka >> mikro makro<< ), or even sound drawn from contact
miking of a
magnetic tape head. In absence of comforting reference points such as
repetitive rhythms
or vocals, these sounds drift between the speakers, or between
earphones, like sonic
Rorschach blots.î
Rob Young, Director of The Wire magazine, London
(Carsten Nicolaiís work)...makes you think about the future of music,
and when he
performed his work at Tonic with disk jockey Craig I-Sound on
Wednesday night, it was
easy to feel that he was part of a much larger societal movement.î
Ben Ratcliff, The New York Times review, Friday, January 29,1999
Technical requirements:
*** To be able to listen to this performance your computer must have
RealPlayer software
- which can be downloaded free of charge at
http://www.real.com ***
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MILLE PLATEAUX - Ultra-Red, Clicks& Cuts v/a:
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FEBRUARY 22.2000.
MILLE PLATEAUX - Ihan 'Iota'
FEBRUARY 29.2000.
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RITORNELL - Autopoieses "Live A Noir"
MARCH 2000.
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