Note: Kerne
- Cycle 4:54
- End 0:18
- 180 6:08
- Rotar 5:47
- Modular 3:59
- 180sta 1:59
- Stimme 2:19
- Aka 3:20
- Wa 2:28
- Lab 4:25
- Gap 5:04
- Was 0:09
- Rund 5:45
- Hertz 6:28
- Summe 4:09
- Pol 2:29
- Hybrid 1:25
- Bis +1 6:31
Noto joins the ranks of Panasonic and Ryoji Ikeda with his own brand of
electronic minimalism. Not content to simply write dance music, Carsten Nicolai
instead composes music with staunch rules and techniques. Each of the eighteen
tracks on "Kerne" uses a different waveform. You can identify the chosen
waveforms since they are also the track titles. A quick check of the liner
notes reveals such basic waveforms as cyclic, rotor, and hybrid. What is not
obvious is whether or not Noto wrote the entire album with only a few finite
sampled elements and then rearranged for the chosen waveforms of each track. No
matter the origin, true audiophiles can appreciate the sounds on this album the
dissonant tones on many tracks are difficult to tolerate at times. This is
intelligent electronic music at its apex for the true cognoscenti.
Noto is: Carsten Nicolai
Contact:
Plate Lunch Records
114 N. Edison Ave.
Tampa, FL 33606-1434
E-mail: info@platelunch.com
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