住在海边的人

Studio album by Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released     March 20 2005
Label     Raster-Noton
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology
Gene:Dance & Electronic,Avant garde

Insen is the second album in an ongoing collaboration between Japanese composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto and German electronic artist Carsten Nicolai, here credited as Alva Noto. The album's core sound is a blend of Sakamoto's impressionist piano melodies and Nicolai's digitally processed beats and sounds. Released in 2005 by Nicolai's Raster-Noton label, it follows the duo's debut album Vrioon, which was named album of the year in 2004 by The Wire magazine.

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Track listing
    * 1. Aurora - 8:52
    * 2. Morning - 5:27
    * 3. Logic Moon - 6:50
    * 4. Moon - 6:07
    * 5. Berlin - 6:17
    * 6. Iano - 6:53
    * 7. Avaol - 2:52
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德国大叔Carsten Nicolai(艺名Alva Noto)和日本人Ryuichi Sakamoto合作的第二张专辑。
这大叔颇厉害，和朋友一起建立了一个实验厂牌Raster-Noton。大叔还同时是几个团的队员。
这张专辑就像它的封面一样，简单，纯净。Ryuichi Sakamoto简单得似乎没有旋律的的钢琴，时隐时现(或者说像断断续续)。听似随意，却又及其入心。再搭配上Noto大叔的电子节拍,纯粹而美丽,让我想到深夜里平静的海。--LAw



--下面是德国大叔Carston Nicolai的个人介绍--
    * Alternative Name: Carston Nicolai
    * Genre: Electronica
    * Active: '90s, 2000s
    * Instrument: Performer, Main Performer, Remixing

Biography
Alva Noto is the pseudonym of German audio-visual artist Carsten Nicolai. Born in the east German city of Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1965, Nicolai first studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing an interest in the theoretical properties of sound and space. Resettling in Berlin in the early '90s, Nicolai founded the experimental music label Noton.Archiv Fuer Ton Und Nichtton as a platform for his conceptual and experimental musical concerns; which finally took shape as a 12-issue CD and magazine series called 20 to 2000, released in 1999 and 2000 on Raster-Noton Records, which had merged his own label with Olaf Bender's Rastermusic concern. With that conceptual masterwork out of the way, Nicolai adopted the name Alva Noto (as simply Noto, he had done some small-scale recordings and performances dating as far back as 1996) and recorded 2000's Prototypes, a ten-track, 50-minute album of untitled sound collages constructed from the actual sound of electrical hums and clicks, amplified and arranged into a series of discrete movements that move beyond mere ambient music into a whole new realm of environmental music. 2001's Transform develops the style soon dubbed glitch by the buzzword-happy electronica scene, an all-new set of ten evanescent pieces.
~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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[From WiKiPedia]Alva Noto a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai, who has established himself as a leading artist amongst current electronic sound and visual designers who are using art and music as hybrid tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto. He is also a member of the music groups Signal (with Frank Bretschneider, AKA Komet and Olaf Bender, AKA Byetone) and Cyclo. (with Ryoji Ikeda).

Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Sound is changed and evolved into time and space and transformed by looping oscillators and tone generators. Through these processes the essence of pure electricity is made audible. He works without sequencers, but mathematically edits his work to give his compositions precise [rhythmic structures. Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential elements of the work and these sound sources are applied to the rhythmic groove of Hip-Hop and R&B. The sounds of electronic information transmission such as fax tones, modem sounds and telephone pops and clicks are sampled and organised into loops to which Nicolai adds longer electronic tones in the background and foreground as the piece progresses.