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Alva Noto ??? Unitxt {Raster-Noton}

Alva Noto (a.k.a. Carsten Nicolai of Signal as well as Cyclo) is one of those Germans germinating circuit surging snafus & microscopic digital sound bugs.?? Systematic pronounced pulsing, semi-busy buzzing, staggered static processing & upbeat glitch sequences without sequencer aid serve up these sonic texts.?? Alva Noto uses his noggin & the universal language of mathematics to measure out his music???s meter.?? Anne-James Chaton provides verbal text spoken in French on a few clicking cuts.?? It???s pretty clever how Alva Noto devises his sound base.?? One (track 7) uses copyread credit card information & other odds & ends sources from inside Alva Noto???s own wallet.?? After the first ten compositions, you can play around with 14 source codes sound files created from digital data & programs.?? I guess you could burn a cd-r copy and play & mix them to your taste over the main text.?? Pretty cool concept, not to mention an enjoyably warm spunky album.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • Reviewed by Neil Grovel on January 2, 2009 at 3:44 pm
  • Filed as A Library,CD
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