Alva Noto
also plays New York City — 1 night
Born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science. With a strong adherence to reductionism he leads his sound experiments into the field of electronic music creating his own code of signs, acoustics and visual symbols.
NOTON is a label founded in 1994 by Carsten Nicolai as a small imprint becoming active in 1996 with the release of noto “spin” record. In the same year the collaboration with RasterMusic begun and by 1999 the two labels merged into Raster-Noton.
By 2017 NOTON starts working independently releasing all back catalogue of Alva Noto and currently planning future releases. Diverse musical projects include remarkable collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda (cyclo), Blixa Bargeld or Mika Vainio. Nicolai toured extensively as Alva Noto through Europe, Asia, South America and the US. Among others, he performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London. Most recently Nicolai scored the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film, 'The Revenant’ which has been nominated for a Golden Globe, BAFTA, Grammy and Critics Choice Award.
The rest of it — one more paragraph
His musical œuvre echoes in his work as a visual artist. Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the sensory perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. His installations have a minimalistic aesthetic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing. After his participation in important international exhibitions like documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale, Nicolai’s works were shown worldwide in extensive solo and group exhibitions.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Mute Records, Raster-Noton, Affin, Mille Plateaux, Electric Deluxe, LINE, Public Possession and Noton. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Sat 26 SepFunkhaus Berlinfirst time · Circadian
- Sun 16 AugNeue Nationalgalerietheir 3rd night · CTM Festival, FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V.
- Sun 28 JunZENNERfirst time · Avant Art, Avant Art Festival, Tone Industria Sp. z o.o.
- Mon 22 JunTBA - various venuesAvant Art, Avant Art Festival
- Sat 7 FebPhilharmonie Berlinfirst time
2025 — 3 nights
- Sun 21 Dec 2025TBA - OUR SAKE CLUB
- Sat 30 Aug 2025Neue Nationalgalerietheir 2nd night · CTM Festival, FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V.
- Wed 27 Aug 2025Neue Nationalgaleriefirst time · CTM Festival, FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V.
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2025, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- Neue NationalgalerieAug 2025 – Aug 20263 nights
Once each: Funkhaus Berlin, ZENNER and Philharmonie Berlin. Two of the 8 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
Carsten Nicolai has stood on 1 of these bills. Carsten Nicolai is one of the names Alva Noto records under, so they are named here rather than counted as company. — their aliases on Resident Advisor
- Ryuichi SakamotoNeue Nationalgalerie ×3, Funkhaus Berlin ×1 · Aug 2025 – Sep 20264 nights
- Stephen O'MalleyNeue Nationalgalerie ×3 · Aug 2025 – Aug 20263 nights
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