Alva Noto is the stage name of Carsten Nicolai, a German electronic musician and visual artist known for glitch-based minimal compositions and sound-art projects; he is a co-founder of the Raster-Noton label.

Co-founder of Raster-Noton; frequent collaborator with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ryoji Ikeda; work spans albums, installations and live audiovisual performances. Reviews on DeBaser highlight albums like Unieqav and Transform and note both studio precision and divisive live presentations.

Reviews depict Alva Noto's music as precise, microsound-driven and often glitch-centered. Unieqav is read as a more melodic, techno-adjacent milestone; Transform is praised for its range. Live work divides opinions between graphical/visual focus and musical engagement.

For:Listeners of experimental electronic, glitch, microsound, minimal and ambient music; fans of sound art and rhythmic electro-acoustic work.

 And then glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch and more glitch.

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 Listening to Unieqav, it feels as though the artist has reached a milestone, successfully reconciling the sounds of "errors" with a musical form close to techno and IDM.

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 Owner of Raster-Noton, a production house for emerging artists on the "electrodubchillout" scene (forgive me), in some releases he acts as a co-producer, and he can be found as a DJ in chill-out rooms of some raves between London and Berlin.

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