Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs

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This collaboration between these two composers, both leaders in their respective fields, has been developing for years. Their last four albums, vrioon, insen, revep, utp_, sees the legendary film composer Sakamoto trademark emotive minimalist piano fuse together with the austere electronics of Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai. This profound synergy between the acoustic and the electronic creates a music that is as warm as it is cold, organic as much as it is synthetic, improvised as much as it is rehearsed. It is this tension between both musical poles which makes for a collaborative project that has produced some of the most beautiful music in the last decade.

damn good news

sakamoto+alva noto

sakamoto+fennesz

in the same year

sweet

where did you find this info? Internet searching gives nothing.

it did give me this tho:

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The initials of the five albums – vrioon, insen, revep, utp_ and now summvs – together form the

word ʻvirusʼ, concluding the series with a final infectuous twist.

cool

but final? shit

bleep just put it up for pre-order

tour dates

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raster-noton, kab and guilty76 present - alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto "s" tour 2011

 

12 May 2011,Thursday

UK

London, Roundhouse - Click here for tickets

 

17 May 2011, Tuesday

Italy

Milano, Teartro Dell`Arte

 

18 May 2011, Wednesday

Italy

Milano, Teartro Dell`Arte

 

19 May 2011, Thursday

Italy

Perugia, Teatro Morlacchi

 

20 May 2011, Friday

Italy

Roma, Villa Massimo

 

21 May 2011, Saturday

Italy

Roma, Villa Massimo

 

22 May 2011, Sunday

Italy

Parma, Cortile del Guazzatoio Open Air

 

23 May 2011, Monday

Belgium

Brussels, Ancienne Belgique - Click here for tickets

 

25 May 2011, Wednesday

Netherlands

Eindhoven, St Catherine's Church - Click here for tickets

 

27 May 2011, Friday

Germany

Leipzig, Oper - Click here for tickets

 

28 May 2011, Saturday

Denmark

Copenhagen, Konzerthuset - Click here for tickets

 

29 May 2011, Sunday

Germany

Frankfurt, Cocoon Club - Click here for tickets

 

01 June 2011, Wednesday

Germany

Berlin, Admiralspalast - Click here for tickets

 

19 June 2011, Sunday

Spain

Barcelona, Sonar Festival Teatro Grec - Click here for tickets

http://www.sitesakamoto.com/tour/

ryuichi sakamoto is patriarch. just realizing that i've not listened to his 'out of noise' release

I'll never say it enough:

2011 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2010

I'll look forward to it if it's more like the albums they did before utp_.

tracklist:

01. microon I (03:00)

02. reverso (06:57)

03. halo (07:10)

04. microon II (02:38)

05. pionier IOO (05:46)

06. ionoscan (04:08)

07. by this river (04:08)

08. naono (11:20)

09. microon III (03:00)

10. by this river - phantom (08:03)

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on may 09th, 2011, raster-noton. archiv für ton und nichtton releases alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto’s album summvs, the latest result of the unusual creative partnership between the oscar-prize honored film composer ryuichi sakamoto and the fine artist and electronic music pioneer carsten nicolai.

 

the name of the artists’ fifth collaborative release summvs refers to the latin word ‘summa’ (engl.: sum) and ‘versus’ (engl.: towards) serving as a metaphor for the work being oriented towards a collarorative whole. summvs is the last of a series of five releases that started with vrioon in 2002 and continued with insen (2005), revep (2005) and utp_ (2007).

 

passages of sparse yet emotionally charged and passionate piano solos are embedded in sine waves or reworked to establish new aesthetics of piano sound. sparse percussions and throbbing bass pulses hover above and below – the music being contemplative and minimal at the same time.

 

the tracks microon I-III contain recordings of one of the 15 pianos using a 16th tone interval tuning built by sauter, spaichingen/donaueschingen, germany. the original ‘piano metamorfoseador en dieciseisavos de tono’ was designed by julián carrillo trujillo. thanks to the music department of berne university of the arts for making this instrument available.

 

included in the album are two cover versions of the track ‘by this river’ originally written by roedelius, moebius and brian eno in 1977. in their instrumental versions of the song nicolai and sakamoto create and investigate the song’s appeal in both normal speed and slow motion.

 

the new album will host its world live premiere on may 12th, 2011 at the roundhouse in london, uk and will be followed by a european tour in may/june 2011 with stopovers in milan, perugia, rome, parma, brussels, eindhoven, leipzig, copenhagen, frankfurt, berlin, and barcelona. ryuichi sakamoto on piano and alva noto on electronics will present their fifth collaborative release with a unique style visualisation and an state-of-the-art technical setting and stage design.

I'm intrigued.

intrigued? this is going to be excellent.

wheredoibuythisineeditrightnow

holyshitimstoked

  On 4/21/2011 at 2:16 AM, fox said:

intrigued? this is going to be excellent.

Well, UTP had a 2-3 good tracks. The rest of the tracks were unnecessary...

one sample up on bleep

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=29647

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  On 4/22/2011 at 12:05 AM, beariksson said:

one sample up on bleep

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=29647

wow

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  On 4/22/2011 at 12:05 AM, beariksson said:

one sample up on bleep

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=29647

Sounds alright. It sounds as if Alva Noto might be keeping all the glitches to a minimum... good for him.

lol

this year is pretty darn good

Samples of all tracks are now available:

http://www.raster-noton.net/anrs/

The samples sound fantastic. Will there be a vinyl version?

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:18 AM, xxx said:

wow, I'm impressed! I slsk'd Ensemble Modern to see what AN/RS was all about and was a bit disappointed. It was OK in a sparse, experimental way but I knew they could do something better. Sounds like this is what I wanted to hear.

Yeah this definitely sounds like it could be one of the best in the series (though I did love UTP). Reading the notes before hand I was worried that this would be quite an 'academic' sounding album and would be exploring more the sound of the microtone instrument than conventional melodic content, but the samples were just beautiful !

  On 5/4/2011 at 4:18 AM, xxx said:

wow, I'm impressed! I slsk'd Ensemble Modern to see what AN/RS was all about and was a bit disappointed. It was OK in a sparse, experimental way but I knew they could do something better. Sounds like this is what I wanted to hear.

(just quietly, ensemble modern is possibly the worst example of what AN/RS are all about.)

looking forward to this new album. the alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto collaborations are always an absolute pleasure^^

i still need to check out the new cyclo album!!!

did it leak yet?

released now and available at http://www.raster-noton.net

LEAKED

FLAC BOUGHT

"Halo" and "Pioneer IOO" are incredibly beautiful, I'm almost tearing.

  On 4/20/2011 at 6:35 PM, Enter a new display name said:

I'll never say it enough:

 

2011 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2010

oh why does this matter ? you keep comparing musical years and it's kindof annoying... music comes out when it's ready no matter what fucking year we're in.

oh btw, will look into this new collab album, I'm fan of both artists.