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,death of a typographer’ is meant to be a snap shot. the release was recorded in a winter week in berlin. only the pre-released single ,plastic star’ was created in sunny athens. the album contain...
after finishing the transall cycle and introducing the series of xerrox, alva noto makes a move back to his more rhythmic approach in unitxt. it could be seen as a kind of continuation to the transspr...
following his highly successful debut "stabil" (r-n073), kangding ray releases his second full length record on raster-noton, entitled "automne fold". with "automne fold", david letellier has ev...
following dataplex cd (raster-noton, r-n068), test pattern is the second audio release in ryoji ikeda's multimedia project datamatics; an ongoing exploration of the potential to perceive the invisible...
COH PLAYS COSEY CD is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project between Ivan Pavlov/COH and Cosey Fanni Tutti known for her solo performances and work with Chris Carter/CTI as well as for bei...
COH PLAYS COSEY CD is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project between Ivan Pavlov/COH and Cosey Fanni Tutti known for her solo performances and work with Chris Carter/CTI as well as for bei...
'transform', originally released on mille plateaux (mp 102, 2001), is now being re-released on raster-noton. the album, released as cd, comes with a new cover and digitally remastered. on 'transform',...
'transform', originally released on mille plateaux (mp 102, 2001), is now being re-released on raster-noton. the album, released as cd, comes with a new cover and digitally remastered. on 'transform',...
olaf bender is co-founder of raster-noton label. with plastic star he (pre-)releases an ep of his upcoming album death of a typographer on the label. plastic star, the title track, illustrates quite w...
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 founde...
release: november 14th 2007 »spare parts« is the long awaited new album from the sonic laboratory of austrian based »psycho-physio« musican pomassl and the latest example of his interest in decon...
raster-noton (1996) celebrates its 11th label anniversary in 2007. eleven internationally renowned designers were invited to contribute posters to this. designer/company: · r-n 090-01 - cyan, dan...
strings is primarily an attempt to reconcile the aesthetics of digital sound with that of the more traditional music instruments and to enrich the respective domains with the qualities of each other. ...
fades is video installation for a specifically designed environment. ultra fine sprays of mist are introduced into a space in which the white light of the projection manifests itself. these fades move...
rhythm is neither pop nor avant-garde, but deals simply with the basic principles of any modern music: rhythm. frank bretschneider takes his, never simple, but all the more heartfelt relationship to ...
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 onl...
0riginals are unique, be it genetic codes or image and sound documents. their copies are mere means of distribution. to secure these originals from misuse is the main issue today. the essence and pote...
is there beauty in the threatening? with list senking introduces 40 minutes of the darkest matter and reckons: yes. on list he varies and experiments with a - for raster-noton - frightening diversity...
after opening wavetrap's catalogue with his solo album ydin back in the year 1999, pan sonic's mika vainio comes back with another offering for the label. entitled revitty ("torn"), the record is as s...
in 2005 and 2006 three major tours of insen led the artists alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto around the world. raster-noton is pleased to present insen live dvd as a document of this project. recordings t...
after several releases by artists of the collective around raster-noton on american label line, a long-outstanding invitation was issued into the opposite direction. so last but not least the present ...
notations archiv 1 is a project by students of klasse systemdesign at academy of visual arts leipzig during winter semester 2005/06. the project focused on visualization of sound. it was supervised by...
notations archiv 1 is a project by students of klasse systemdesign at academy of visual arts leipzig during winter semester 2005/06. the project focused on visualization of sound. it was supervised by...
SET YOUR CENTER BETWEEN YOUR PARTS IN ORDER TO is the highly anticipated follow up release to the stellar debut DISPLAY by danish artist pixel aka jon egeskov. as a professionally trained jazz musicia...
the raster-post series winds up with a pop release by label regular and favorite COH aka ivan pavlov. entitled "PATHERNS", this 4 track CD-EP creates a picture-puzzle like effect while at the same are...
raster-noton has established a core group of artists, many of which were undiscovered talents. in this tradition the new release is no exception. kangding ray aka david letellier arrives at raster-no...
after the success of "insen" this collaborative project has not reached its conclusion. to co-inside with the second major insen tour by carsten nicolai aka alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto in 2006, raste...
during his first live tour in japan carsten nicolai met ryuichi sakamoto in tokyo. a year after it happened that he was asked to remix material from sakamoto for the japanese magazine code unfinished....
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...
this release is the first part of the transall cycle. transall approaches with the problematics of speed, the vision of utopia and the dissolution of our ideas into fragments. alva noto a.k.a. carst...
dataplex is the much-anticipated new release from leading japanese electronic composer ryoji ikeda. since the mid 1990s, ikeda has pioneered a radical and highly influential minimalist approach in the...
![image 1: dataplex [2001-05] ryoji ikeda](http://www.raster-noton.net/tn.php?img=files/web/r-n068/r-n068_01.jpg&w=640&h=480&hash=979c1ee10b "image 1: dataplex [2001-05] ryoji ikeda")
catalogue on the occasion of raster-noton/carsten nicolai exhibition audio visual spaces at s.m.a.k. gallery and vooruit cultural center, gent, belgium in 2005/2006. with texts by philippe van cautere...
most people know mark fell and mat steel under the name SND. like no other project before scape they stand for the propagandised clicks and cut sound. however as label mate terre theamlitz points out,...
this release is the third part of the transall cycle. transall approaches with the problematics of speed, the vision of utopia and the dissolution of our ideas into fragments. alva noto a.k.a. carst...
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 ye...
This is the first complete monograph about the seminal work of Ryoji Ikeda. With superb attention to detail and layout, the publication documents the artist's latest projects and includes brand-new ar...
exhibition catalogue published by schirn kunsthalle frankfurt. with a preface by max hollein and contributions by magnus haglund and yuko hasegawa, as well as explanatory notes on carsten nicolai’s ...
this release is the second part of the transall cycle. transall approaches with the problematics of speed, the vision of utopia and the dissolution of our ideas into fragments. alva noto a.k.a. cars...
handmade collector's box for alva noto's transall series by german bookbinder cornelia ahnert....
specially produced for the wire magazine, archiv 1 is a new and exclusive compilation featuring material released by the german electronic music imprint, raster-noton. pressed on a transparent (c-thru...
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 gui...
Donnacha Costello lives and works in dublin. Beside his own label minimise he releases also on mille plateaux and force inc. At raster-noton he uses the pseudonym »modul«. Isol keeps a deep inside...
pixel aka jon egeskov was born in denmark in 1973. he studied jazz at copenhagen conservatory with saxophone as his main instrument. these studies allowed an unconventional approach to modern electron...
carsten nicolai aka noto presented his new "endless loop edition III" at sonar festival, barcelona 2003. since 1997 four parallel running Technics 1210MK2 record players equipped with different endl...
with his new album »tap« senking expands his personal style in a consistent manner. atmoshpheric fields and brief fragments of melody are again and again combined with autonomous, multiple piled, pe...
Dry, laconic deep-sound/hi-hat combinations set the beat, interspersed with intermittent calculated breaks. Baselines in the narrow sense are few and far between, and the low frequency spectrum is –...
The artistic emancipation of noise in the sense of organised sound effects was achieved as early as 1913. At least since the technological development of sampling one can not think of popular music wi...
The series of concerts staged on occasion of the exhibition Frequencies [Hz] Audio-Visual Spaces Frankfurt, February - April 2002, documents the exhibited artists work with sound in space as a perform...
![image 1: frequencies [Hz] alva noto + achim wollscheid + mark behrens + christophe charles + COH + carl michael von hausswolff + cyclo + ekkehard ehlers + errorsmith + farmersmanual + frank bretschneider + hecker + mainpal inv. + markus schmickler + merzbow + monolake + opiate + pan sonic + pita + pomassl + random industries + richard chartier + ryoji ikeda + senking + snd + steinbrüchel + stephan mathieu + thomas körner + ultra-red](http://www.raster-noton.net/tn.php?img=files/web/ltd008/ltd008_01.jpg&w=640&h=480&hash=714c9e883c "image 1: frequencies [Hz] alva noto + achim wollscheid + mark behrens + christophe charles + COH + carl michael von hausswolff + cyclo + ekkehard ehlers + errorsmith + farmersmanual + frank bretschneider + hecker + mainpal inv. + markus schmickler + merzbow + monolake + opiate + pan sonic + pita + pomassl + random industries + richard chartier + ryoji ikeda + senking + snd + steinbrüchel + stephan mathieu + thomas körner + ultra-red")
![image 2: frequencies [Hz] alva noto + achim wollscheid + mark behrens + christophe charles + COH + carl michael von hausswolff + cyclo + ekkehard ehlers + errorsmith + farmersmanual + frank bretschneider + hecker + mainpal inv. + markus schmickler + merzbow + monolake + opiate + pan sonic + pita + pomassl + random industries + richard chartier + ryoji ikeda + senking + snd + steinbrüchel + stephan mathieu + thomas körner + ultra-red](http://www.raster-noton.net/tn.php?img=files/web/ltd008/ltd008_02.jpg&w=640&h=480&hash=a94fdf4f06 "image 2: frequencies [Hz] alva noto + achim wollscheid + mark behrens + christophe charles + COH + carl michael von hausswolff + cyclo + ekkehard ehlers + errorsmith + farmersmanual + frank bretschneider + hecker + mainpal inv. + markus schmickler + merzbow + monolake + opiate + pan sonic + pita + pomassl + random industries + richard chartier + ryoji ikeda + senking + snd + steinbrüchel + stephan mathieu + thomas körner + ultra-red")
The River is the culmination of william basinski's shortwavemusic experiments. it was recorded in real time in 1983 using tape loops and shortwave radio static. the loops were all culled from the airw...
the young japanese artist nibo lives and works in tokyo/japan where he also has his own label “n160”. since 1997 he has been working on sound and visual projects where he puts special interest on ...
4 colour artist-catalog 104 p. german/English + 16 p. zelluloid print + audio cd, noto. autore ...
born in toronto, based in montreal, mitchell akiyama has been carving a niche for himself as one of the premier avant-garde electronic artists in canada.originally trained in classical music and jazz...
jens massel, born in 1969, lives in remage near cologne. he has been releasing music as fumble, kandis and senking for several years now. since 19xx he is focused on his own interpretation/version/sty...
after the first loop experiment for the "bausatz noto infinity"(1998) this series is now conceptually continued/followed by the "endless loop II" edition. the attempt of this release is the analysis o...
liima versions I-II and III-IV 10" are to start kangaroo series off. spontaneity and typical pansonic elements show that liimas version are not a simple adaption of a style but rather more have a spir...
liima versions I-II and III-IV 10" are to start kangaroo series off. spontaneity and typical pansonic elements show that liimas version are not a simple adaption of a style but rather more have a spir...
the box includes cdep releases from the label artists who contributed into the raster-noton event at taktlos 2000 in bern, switzerland.komet, COH, noto and byetone form what can be referred to as the"...
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 bret...
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thomas knaak aka opiate is one of the most acclaimed artists coming from denmark. in the early beginning of the 90s he started as a dj, establishing himself as one of the first to bring ambient, elect...
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...
"open close open" - the title of robert lippoks latest release can obviously be seen in the context of daily maxim: instructions as you can find on packagings, household appliance, stereo systems and ...
after 1998`s ENTER TINNITUS, here`s finally a new full-length release from ivan pavlov aka COH, dedicated to "heavy metal fans all over the world" (as stated on the cover). with its twisted distortio...
oacis: optics acoustics calculated in seconds awarded the price of "Schönste Bücher der Schweiz" 2000 ("Best Books of Switzerland" 2000) is a 104 - page catalog, 4 - colour print with a stitched ...
jens massel aka senking, fumble, kandis has established to an integral part of cologne music scene during the last two years. creating music far away from the typical party sound or subtle humoristic ...
andreas tilliander works as a music assistant at a swedish music company and already took part in some productions. he cooperated with mikael stavöstrand (mitek, staalplaat,etc.) for few times but la...
COH aka ivan pavlov actually born in russia lives and works in sweden, his cultural roots are in his mother country - that means he himself feels more a rapport to the russian avantgarde than to the w...
telefunken is a normal audio cd release. this cd contains 30 tracks combining audio and visual information for tv. the first 20 pieces are line constructs based on impulse frequencies, the last ten a...
taylor deupree has become one of the most important representative of micro-structured rhythmics in the u.s. during the last years. amongst releases on several labels he is mainly involved in his own ...
is the result of several sessions of frank bretschneider/komet, carsten nicolai/noto and olaf bender/byetone. completely different to the artists` solo-releases it is more a spontaneous improvisation ...
after several months of delay caused by technical problems COH_VOX TINNITUS is due to a CD release on december 14, 1999 (limited to 500). The vinyl version is available as 2x7" limited collectors edit...
in 1999 carsten nicolai aka noto had the chance of presenting a personal exhibition at watari-um - japans largest private museum. Exclusively for this project he created a footpath that led to a garde...
kim cascone has a long history involving electronic music: in 1973-76 he studied electronic music at the berklee college of music in boston massachusetts, 1983 he started an ambient industrial project...
![image 1: blue cube [ ] kim cascone](http://www.raster-noton.net/tn.php?img=files/web/cdr014/cdr014_001.gif&w=640&h=480&hash=c281d43d03 "image 1: blue cube [ ] kim cascone")
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objects and phenomena commonly viewed as "static" often appear to be lively processes or life-forms in a different scale, dimension or system of coordinates. it is possible to observe known "hidden" a...
This is Ryoji Ikeda's fourth solo CD, following the highly acclaimed +/-. "My music is a mirror for the listener" 0°C is an exploration at the edge of one's perception - an extension of +/- and the...
this album is the first of three resulting from a series of experiments in 1982 using lo-fi technology to extract sounds from the airwaves and weave them into musical tapestries. using two »norelco«...
"flex", the second komet cd follows seamless it´s first release on rastermusic. altogether the tracks are more straight, less whirr spacy than on the predecessor (exception: the poly rhythmic vibrati...
was produced as a sound project for documenta x. the partly very short 72 tracks (ø = 45 seconds) were infiltrated by different noises of daylife situations like airport, radio, railway station... in...
The two longest tracks »shift« (13:15) and »wellen« (14:49) hilight the main points of the new Produkt-CD «stretch» simultaneously. While »shift« picks up the thread of the slow-mo technotrack...
goem is frans de waard – probably most known from his ongoing work with kapottemuziek [since 1984], a group that fully concentrates on recycling through musique conc rete. besides he is a member of ...
Second release and refreshing new stuff from the berlin electronic-duo: mutated minimal techno between concept, DIN and industrial electronic. Less the clubcontext then the sensibilisation through mod...
a cooperation between finnish musician mika vainio, aka Ø, from pansonic and german artist carsten nicolai, aka noto. originally concepted as part of an installation, to be seen simultaneously in ge...
endless is an early catalogue covering carsten nicolai`s art works. the book is one of the first collaborations between rastermusic and noton. 18 p. german/english. ...
»it is obvious, that the freest and most ecstatic and also widely most understandable form of dance in the western, postindustrial world comes from techno [and all other streams that are included in ...
Eight electronic-dub-industrials not like the usual ones. Composed on the computer, mixed live, then transferred back to be edited and arranged. Result: A beat that is not so straight-ahead with unexp...
The song monotony is what really makes them stand out, gently circulating around a hypnotic center-point. although it is only a five tracks cd it is a piece of modern electronic sixty minutes long. Al...
created by the one-man project Komet, it's a pleasant economical electronic- listening cd. listening to for the first time you think of an ´elegant and very relaxing piece of music. but the more ofte...
24 loops, up from below/down, fast/slow, forewards/backwards, loud/quit. In his soundgames Noto mixes the pleasure of experimenting with the drive to explore the use of repetition which arises very na...
up to date analog-techno that incorporates the 303 in a subtile way.the four acid pieces really make a very fresh and unused impression and the simplicity of the tracks from kyborg are really represen...
significant for the close interaction between experimental forms of music, art and science label noton produced a new series of 12 "20 minutes" cds. the artists`concept behind is the creation of a pie...
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solo release of pansonic's mika vainio....
minimal self is the most recent project of john everall (tactile/sentrax). formula of reversal is an attempt to document via sound a period of intense psychological turmoil. inevitably, therefore, the...
the department for penetration and perversion (pxp), an fm subunit located at [http://wrzk.web.fm/], manages to transmit across viscous to impermeable dimensions a piece of raw waveform, strong DC off...
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