Alva Noto - XERROX VOL. 4

u ok hun ... Woah does what.blarg still exist, not heard that name in a long time

  On 7/8/2020 at 7:25 PM, azatoth said:

what's with the CD issue not being at the usual webshops (juno). i can't buy the vinylz because I have the previous parts as CD and it would just mess with my vibe to get a discrepant format.

It's in stock @Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/alva-noto-xerrox-vol-4/775774-01/

noticed but i already procured it from another source

xerrox 1-2 was great. do not care about 3-4

4 is better than 3

  On 7/29/2020 at 4:14 PM, dr lopez said:

4 is better than 3

Way better!

This album hums, crackles and pops rather nicely but if I’m honest I feel a bit underwhelmed by it. There are a couple of fine tracks though.

  On 6/25/2020 at 8:00 PM, dr lopez said:

i wonder how @Alcofribas feels about this

i have the same ranking as you where 1 is clearly the best, 2 is "quite good" and 3 is somehow not quite up to par as a whole. imo 4 is just as good if not even better than 2. if 2 is "qg" i'd say 4 is "lush." 

that being said i think 4 seems to make it clear that the project has some conceptual inconsistency. this one has lots of lush strings and big verbs and cinematic vibes which seems like it has nothing to do with the cold, digital crunch of the first record and overall it seems that 1 is the only album in the series that feels really tight both conceptually and in its execution. i don't think this is a fault on carsten's part or something - over the many years he's probably just changed his relationship to the project which is fine by me. but in a way for me xerrox 1 is kind of the entire xerrox project in a nutshell and the other records have felt like subplots or something.

still though, 4 is a beautiful record. maybe carsten's most lush work to date.

xerrox plongee. that is all.

actually that's not all. We all know carsten has done eno covers before. famously on summvs. well I think that xerrox calypsoid 2 is a protracted cover/remix/reference of a long way down from another day on earth (which is a criminally underrated eno record) please listen and let me know if im crazy or not

  On 11/2/2020 at 4:58 AM, dr lopez said:

actually that's not all. We all know carsten has done eno covers before. famously on summvs. well I think that xerrox calypsoid 2 is a protracted cover/remix/reference of a long way down from another day on earth (which is a criminally underrated eno record) please listen and let me know if im crazy or not

 

 

 

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You not crazy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNHpp34KcT_/

"1 APRIL 2021 FRANKFURT/M XERROX VOL.4 & ENSEMBLE MODERN REHEARSAL"

Sounds fucking amazing.

  On 4/1/2021 at 5:31 PM, someguy said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNHpp34KcT_/

"1 APRIL 2021 FRANKFURT/M XERROX VOL.4 & ENSEMBLE MODERN REHEARSAL"

Sounds fucking amazing.

For a Batman soundtrack

Saw him play live back in the day in San Francisco. One of the better electronic shows I’ve seen. He had some great visuals going with the music. 

There's a Xerrox Vol. 4 streaming event on the 17th and 25th of this Month. Info/tickets in the description of the video. 

  On 4/13/2021 at 8:32 PM, Shimon_Shimon said:

There's a Xerrox Vol. 4 streaming event on the 17th and 25th of this Month. Info/tickets in the description of the video. 

 

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I'm buying a ticket.

For those in the UK; Barbican, Wednesday the 26th of April 2023: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/xerrox-selected

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Pan-European orchestral collective s t a r g a z e, conducted by André de Ridder, collaborates with electro-musician Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto for a live instrumental, audio-visual performance.
 

Alva Noto, one of the best-known representatives in the electronic music scene since the 1990s, composed the fourth part of his "Xerrox" series in 2020. Based on the concept of digital replication of source material, the "Xerrox" project deals with the manipulation of data (melodies) through endless reproduction. A process of making copies from copies, the sounds of which are changed in such a way that they can hardly be associated with the original material. This creates a sound spectrum of completely new sounds: Copies of originals become originals themselves. 

Now, Alva Noto joins forces with orchestral collective s t a r g a z e to realise an instrumental version of the "Xerrox" series, specially arranged for the ensemble. A multimedia work that combines music with video and light installations.

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I'd buy a ticket but the link doesn't work! 

Forgot to post about this earlier, but this on right now. Hopefully will stay online!

  On 4/22/2023 at 8:02 PM, someguy said:

Forgot to post about this earlier, but this on right now. Hopefully will stay online!

Setlist for anyone wondering:

That cover of Cure's "A Forest'' really bring the misty feel to a parallel level.

Can't wait for new Xerrox. Hopefully this year.

  On 4/22/2023 at 8:02 PM, someguy said:

Forgot to post about this earlier, but this on right now. Hopefully will stay online!

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Tickets booked for the Barbican show tomorrow. Really looking forward to this. Sneaked few mins of this here and there, but don't want to (completely) ruin the surprise. 

  On 4/25/2023 at 11:34 AM, Shimon_Shimon said:

Tickets booked for the Barbican show tomorrow. Really looking forward to this.

Honestly have no idea why I didn't grab tickets for this as I love the Xerrox series. Trying to nab the Youtube version so I can watch it on TV but every such site nowadays is riddled with malware and nonsense and all such bad bads

What an absolute wonderful concert. So the Youtube vid is for Hamburg, and there is a concert in London Barbican? Any other venues?