• Doors: 19:30
• Start time: 20:00
• Limited seats: please come on time

Sound Portraits is a series of listening sessions, curated by Doron Sadja, focusing on the work of iconic composers who have paved the way for contemporary electronic music. After a short introduction of each artist's life and work, we will listen to a selection of excerpts and complete works from the artist’s repertoire. Besides providing an opportunity to introduce these seminal artists to a new audience, the Sound Portraits series also offers an open forum to engage in group listening in a quiet atmosphere. 

This session: Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto

Read more about the series at http://sound-portraits.tumblr.com

Carsten Nicolai is a multi-disciplinary artist, best known for his audio-visual installations, who also performs under the pseudonym Alva Noto. Aiming to synthesize artistic formats and approaches, Nicolai applies scientific systems, mathematical patterns, and semiotics to the generation of art, including grids, codes, errors, and random or autonomously generated structures. Nicolai co-founded the Raster-Noton label in 1999, and has released numerous solo experimental music recordings while also collaborating with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda, and Frank Bretschneider. Nicolai has been the subject of more than fifty international solo exhibitions since 1987, and has performed and created installations in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including the Guggenheim, the SF MoMA, the Tate Modern and Venice Biennale amongst others.