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Alva Noto, the artistic pseudonym of Carsten Nicolai, is a pioneering German artist known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, visual art, and multimedia installations. With his minimalist aesthetic and innovative use of technology, Noto explores the intersections of sound, space, and perception, pushing the boundaries of artistic expression.
"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."
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"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."

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"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."
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"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."

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"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
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"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."

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"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."
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"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."

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"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."
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"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."

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"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"
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"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"

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"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."
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"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."

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"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."
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"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly."

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"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."
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"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."

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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."
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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."

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"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."
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"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."

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"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."
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"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."

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"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."
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"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."

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