Carsten Nicolai Explained

Carsten Nicolai
Birth Name:Carsten Nicolai
Alias:Aleph-1, Alva Noto, Noto
Birth Place:Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany[1]
Birth Date:1965 9, df=yes
Instrument:Synthesizer
keyboards
laptop
percussion
Genre:Electronic music · glitch · microsound · minimal techno · ambient
Label:NOTON Raster-Noton
Mille Plateaux
Line
Associated Acts:ANBB
Blixa Bargeld
Ryoji Ikeda
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cyclo
Opto
Signal
Website:www.carstennicolai.de

Carsten Nicolai (* 18 September 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a German artist, musician and label owner. As a musician he is known under the pseudonym Alva Noto.

Life and career

Carsten Nicolai was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) of Saxony, GDR in 1965. He studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing art. In 1994 he founded the label NOTON, following which a collaboration with RasterMusic began and by 1999 the two labels had merged into Raster-Noton, which operated until 2017. Returning to the labels origin in 2017, Nicolai runs NOTON separately.[2]

In 2009 Nicolai wrote the opera Sparkie: Cage and Beyond in collaboration with Michael Nyman.[3]

Nicolai performed and created installations in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including the Guggenheim, New York, the SF MoMA, Modern Art Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern and Venice Biennale, Italy. As a member (and co-founder) of the Raster-Noton label he was responsible for the acclaimed CD series 20 to 2000 that went on to win the Golden Nica prize at Prix Ars Electronica, 2000.[4]

Carsten Nicolai also works as a visual artist. In 2013, Nicolai participated as a visual artist in Biennale Documenta, an official collateral show of the 55th Venice Biennale of Art.[5]

Nicolai started his professorship in art with focus on digital and time-based media with Dresden Academy of Fine Arts since 2015.

Nicolai co-scored the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant, along with Ryuichi Sakamoto. The score was nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, Grammy and Critics' Choice Movie Awards.[6] In 2018 he created the sound design for Iñárritu’s groundbreaking VR project "Carne y Arena" Flesh and Sand.[7]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Discography

Alva Noto solo studio albums

Alva Noto as Aleph-1 solo studio album

Alva Noto extended plays (EP)

Alva Noto as noto solo studio albums

Compilation albums

Soundtrack albums

Collaborations

With Ryuichi Sakamoto, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto
With Ryoji Ikeda, as "Cyclo."
With Mika Vainio, as "noto"
With Scanner (Robin Rimbaud)
With Blixa Bargeld, as ANBB
With Opiate (Thomas Knak), as Opto
With Zeitkratzer
With Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor
With Anne-James Chaton as Alphabet
With Olaf Bender (Byetone), as Diamond Version
With Iggy Pop and Tarwater

Compilation appearances (exclusive/non-albums tracks)

Remixes

Installations, etc.

Accolades

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See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.carstennicolai.de/?c=biography Carsten Nicolai biography
  2. Web site: Raster-Noton company to split in two . The Wire . 11 February 2020.
  3. News: Linguistic budgie inspires opera . BBC News . 2009-03-25 . 2010-04-23.
  4. Web site: Digital Musics and Sound Art Golden Nica 2000 . . 2000 . Ars Electronica Archive . . 2020-04-16.
  5. Web site: NOISE: an exhibition organized by De Arte Association, curated by Marisa Vescovo . 7 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130613210509/http://www.dearteassociazione.org/www.dearteassociazione.org/NOISE.html . 13 June 2013 . dead.
  6. Web site: The Revenant - Awards . IMDb . 21 February 2020.
  7. Web site: Adriano D'Aloia . Virtually Present, Physically Invisible: Virtual reality immersion and emersion in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Carne y Arena . Senses of Cinema . 21 February 2020.
  8. Web site: eigen+art - Carsten Nicolai + Albert Oehlen Kopie . 2023-06-26 . eigen-art.com . de.
  9. Web site: 2022-06-03 . Carsten Nicolai. transmitter / receiver – the machine and the gardener . 2023-06-26 . Haus der Kunst . de.
  10. Web site: 2019-10-16 . Kunstsammlung NRW: Carsten Nicolai . 2023-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191016181736/http://www.kunstsammlung.de/entdecken/ausstellungen/carsten-nicolai.html . 16 October 2019 .
  11. Web site: eigen+art - Carsten Nicolai formula . 2023-06-26 . eigen-art.com . de.
  12. Web site: IBA Thüringen . 2023-06-26 . iba-thueringen.de . de.
  13. Web site: Sollihøgda . Åsmund . 2019-11-18 . Carsten Nicolai . 2023-06-26 . Copenhagen Contemporary . en-US.
  14. Web site: eigen+art - Carsten Nicolai . 2023-06-26 . eigen-art.com . de.
  15. Web site: Spice . Anton . 2015-06-02 . Carsten Nicolai & The Vinyl Factory present unicolor - an immersive installation at Brewer Street Car Park (24 June - 2 August) . 2023-06-26 . The Vinyl Factory . en-US.
  16. Web site: Carsten Nicolai: Ur-Geräusch - Kunstverein Braunschweig . 2023-06-26 . kunstvereinbraunschweig.de.
  17. Web site: Stuttgart: Sound in Motion . 2023-06-26 . www.kunstforum.de . de-DE.
  18. Web site: Carsten Nicolai . 2023-06-26 . Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz . en-US.
  19. Web site: Carsten Nicolai to light up Hong Kong's skyline with new audio-visual installation - Announcements - e-flux . 2023-06-26 . www.e-flux.com . en.
  20. News: Hierholzer . Michael . Frankfurt . 2013-01-26 . Carsten Nicolai im Museum für Moderne Kunst: Wie das Gehirn die Wirklichkeit schafft . de . FAZ.NET . 2023-06-26 . 0174-4909.
  21. Web site: Carsten Nicolai at the MAC . 2023-06-26 . MAC Montréal . en-US.
  22. Web site: Carsten Nicolai Pace Gallery . 2023-06-26 . www.pacegallery.com . en.
  23. Web site: Carsten Nicolai: rota – Schering Stiftung . 2023-06-26 . de-DE.
  24. Web site: Carsten Nicolai Hamburger Kunsthalle . 2023-06-26 . www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de.
  25. Web site: eigen+art - Berlin_CN_2008 . 2023-06-26 . eigen-art.com . de.
  26. Web site: A New Digital Art Initiative Brought Composer Antonín Dvořák Back to Life in the Middle of Prague . 2024-01-17 . www.culturedmag.com . en.
  27. Web site: Glitch. Die Kunst der Störung DIE PINAKOTHEKEN . 2023-06-26 . www.pinakothek.de.
  28. Web site: Berlin . Staatliche Museen zu . Broken Music Vol. 2 . 2023-06-26 . www.smb.museum . de.
  29. Web site: Ulsan Art Museum (English) > Exhibitions > Exhibitions 상세보기 . 2023-06-26 . www.ulsan.go.kr.
  30. Web site: Homosphäre - Kunsthalle Mainz . 2023-06-26 . www.kunsthalle-mainz.de.
  31. Web site: Ti Zero Palazzo delle Esposizioni . 2023-06-26 . www.palazzoesposizioni.it . en.
  32. Web site: Orchestral Manoeuvres: See Sound. Feel Sound. Be Sound - Announcements - e-flux . 2023-06-26 . www.e-flux.com . en.
  33. Web site: Sound and Silence . 2023-06-26 . Kunstmuseum Bonn . de-DE.
  34. Web site: Nordrhein-Westfalen . Kunstsammlung . Technology Transformation. Fotografie und Video in der Kunstsammlung . 2023-06-26 . Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen . de.
  35. Web site: Redaktion . Veröffentlicht von ARTinWORDS de . 2020-07-13 . Bundeskunsthalle Bonn: Ausstellungen 2020 ARTinWORDS . 2023-06-26 . Kunst, Künstler, Ausstellungen, Kunstgeschichte auf ARTinWORDS . de-DE.
  36. Web site: Sweet Harmony - Exhibition - Saatchi Gallery . 2023-06-26 . www.saatchigallery.com.
  37. Web site: Doppelleben . 2023-06-26 . www.mumok.at . de.
  38. Web site: Soundings: A Contemporary Score MoMA . 2023-06-26 . The Museum of Modern Art . en.
  39. Web site: Vom Klang der Kunst. TONSPUR_expanded . 2023-06-26 . MuseumsQuartier Wien . de.
  40. Web site: Volume: Bed of Sound MoMA . 2023-06-26 . The Museum of Modern Art . en.
  41. Web site: Künstlerliste der Ausstellung. documenta 10, 1997 . 2023-06-26 . universes.art . de-DE.
  42. News: http://natalie.mu/music/news/24571. ja:相対性理論+渋谷慶一郎コラボ曲の高音質音源を先行配信. 1 December 2009. 5 January 2012. natalie.mu. ja.
  43. http://www.thekitchen.org/event/216/0/1/ alva noto: unitxt
  44. Web site: Carsten Nicolai. 2020-11-03. SAK Sächsische Akademie der Künste. de.
  45. News: Zeitz . Lisa . Ausstellungen im Haus Konstruktiv: Die Spuren der Schnecken . de . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) . 2022-10-01 . 0174-4909.