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Carsten Nicolai «∞»
Carsten Nicolai, «∞», 1997 – 1998
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I am fascinated by sounds, images, and signs, the imaginary forces they develop, and how they directly affect everyone. You can't grasp them or capture them in words, and yet everyone perceives them. They disturb and move you. When you walk through the city, you are accompanied by and wrapped in thousands of sounds, noises, and signals. What do you retain in your filter? What just goes past you?


 
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Categories: Sound

Keywords: Music | Pop

Source text:

Nicolai, Carsten ««I want to stay in the core of the sound, as it were.»»

Relevant passages:

icon: authorTjark Ihmels icon: authorJulia Riedel «The Methodology of Generative Art»

Works by Carsten Nicolai:

aka noto, crystals/reworked| Snownoise


Kassel | Germany
 

 Carsten Nicolai
«∞»

In 1997-98, under the sign ∞ (‹infinity›), Carsten Nicloai developed a series of works in various media and on various sites. The use of recurring modules makes them a single project. The basic elements are an amorphous sign that Nicolai christened the 'snowman syndrome' and 72 sounds, 45-second loops he calls ‹Spins›. The quiet, repeating sounds recall fire engine sirens, whale song, bird chirping, or African drumming. But all are tones distorted and processed from everyday devices such as radio, fax machines, telephones, modems, or human speech. The sound waste of our means of communication, multiply overlaid and mixed, becomes a minimal music sound track.