★Raster-Noton
List
Is there beauty in what is threatening? With List, Senking introduces 40 minutes of the darkest matter and reckons, yes. He varies and experiments with a -- for Raster-Noton -- frightening diversity of sounds. He reveals the pieces as sound-collages,…
Cyclo
on the occasion of new forms series of concerts in 1999 ryoji ikeda and carsten nicolai did their first joint performance at galerie für zeitgenössische kunst in leipzig/ germany - the project cyclo. was founded. between 1999 and 2001 files were exc…
Dataplex
Raster-noton's flagship Signal - Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai - is something like the reference group of one of the pivotal labels of new minimal electronic music. Although only having released one cd so far, their sessions an…
1000 fragments
1000 fragments is Ryoji Ikeda's first solo album. As early as 1995 Ikeda started with this influential release his consistent work on digital sound design, having an inspiring impact on the the founders of Raster-noton label. 1000 fragments was origi…
Incidence
This release is an expression of long-lasting artistic ties between both labels. In the greyness, heavy waves begin to glide into the one-hour work. They swell and flood a vacuum. Richard Chartier intensifies this maelstrom in long and graceful moves…
Mouvements
With 'mouvements' the artist Hervé Boghossian presents his newest work. Regarding the technique of composition as well as the acoustic effect the album is an exception. Starting point are several guitar-compositions played live into computer. In a se…
Leech
With his works the swedish artist Carl Michael Von Hausswolff takes interest in revealing and using accoustic, visual, social and cultural phenomena. For the cd Leech he acts as a parasite on works by Olafur Eliasson, Carsten Höller, Tommi Grönlund-P…
Ström
There has been a connection between carl michael and raster-noton since the early days of the label. First meeting was at documenta x in kassel in 1997 where carsten nicolai, olaf bender, frank bretschneider, mika vainio and c.m.v. hausswolff came to…
Insen
With Insen, Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) and Ryuichi Sakamoto continue their collaboration which started with vrioon. The debut album released on raster-noton in 2003 was voted record of the year 2004 in the electronica category by british magazin…
Xerrox
CD version. 'Xerrox is the new, self-contained project of Alva Noto, which like his transall-series (Transrapid, Transvision and Transspray, Raster-noton 61-63, 2002-2004) is intended to be released in five parts during the next years. On Xerrox, Alv…
Transspray
Part 3 of 3** This release is presented in three cds: Transrapid, Transvision and finally, Transspray. Across the 3 installments special emphasis is put on the rhythmic aspects of minimalism, utilising Carsten Nicolai's maverick minimal intricacies i…
Transvision
art 2 of 3** This release is presented in three cds: Transrapid, Transvision and finally, Transspray. Across the 3 installments special emphasis is put on the rhythmic aspects of minimalism, utilising Carsten Nicolai's maverick minimal intricacies in…
Transrapid
Part 1 of 3** This release is presented in three cds: Transrapid, Transvision and finally, Transspray. Across the 3 installments special emphasis is put on the rhythmic aspects of minimalism, utilising Carsten Nicolai's maverick minimal intricacies i…