“Don’t create music just to be making noise. Don’t do that. You’re making self-serving arrogant noise, you’re polluting the planet! Do something to move someone else!” — Songwriter and producer Patrick Adams, May 27, 2013

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NYU Skirball Center and experimental projects in music, art, pub- lishing, and science. The label’s aesthetic focus is rhythmic, A TALK M AY radical minimalism, full of glitchy clicks and with knocks, an exploration into the wider topic of James sound that’s partnered with unconventional Murphy 27 and equally minimal package design. Many of the artists on the label work across Deviation @ Sullivan Room different media—Nicolai himself comes from an architecture and visual arts background. Benji B He moved into sound production when he FaltyDL M AY found himself suddenly unsatisfied with visu- Dorian al art. “It’s very much oriented towards what Concept you deliver, and the whole process of creation More 27 is not really visible,” Nicolai says. He began to experiment with the idea of sound being ma- West Park Church nipulated as a material form. “I found that it could provide what I was looking for. Sound Pantha has a process, it’s time-based—it materializes du Prince MAY where you start to hear and where you cannot & The Bell hear anymore.” Laboratory He started out pairing the sonic and vi- R V ILLANUE A OS C A R 28 sual worlds by experimenting with high fre- quencies, using oscilloscopes and other tools LE BARON

B Y P H O T to turn sound into tangible matter. In his live shows it sometimes seems that sight and hear- MAY ing are merged, making scientific phenomena UNO carsten nicolai is interested in abstrac- like sound and light frequencies perceivable tion, a process by which we come to interpret by both eyes and ears. “As electronic musi- sound and understand the world. Also known by his cians, we’re not really performing with an in- NYC 28 pseudonyms Noto and Alva Noto, under which strument where the audience can see what’s he records , he founded the going on,” says Nicolai. “The visuals perform and vision avant-garde label Raster-Noton in 1999 along rather than us. The visuals analyze the music, Raster-Noton’s Carsten with friends Olaf Bender and Frank Bret- and a graphical representation of sound ‘per- TONIGHT Nicolai on the intersection schneider. Based in , (where forms.’ You see nature and have to understand of art and music. all three grew up), Raster-Noton was founded what it’s about. And then you have to make METROPOLITAN MUSEM OF ART in order to create a platform for conceptual your own picture of it.” -Olivia graham Alva M AY Noto + 29 REC UPCOMING ROOM EVENTS

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