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ARTIST
ALVA NOTO
TITLE
Xerrox Vol. 4
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
NOTON
CATALOG #
NOTON 049CD
NOTON 049CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/17/2020
Alva Noto
returns to his much awaited
Xerrox
project with
Vol. 4
, the fourth installment of the five-piece intended series based on the concept of digital replication of source material. Using the process of copying as a basis, the
Xerrox
series deals with the manipulation of data by means of endless reproduction. Due to the inherent fallacy of the procedure involving the making of copies made from other copies, everyday sounds become so altered that they can be hardly associated with the source material. As a result, entirely new sounds are created: copies of originals become originals themselves. Following
Xerrox Vol. 1
(R-N 078CD/LP, 2007),
Vol. 2
(R-N 103LP, 2009),
Vol. 3
(R-N 159CD/LP, 2015),
Carsten Nicolai
continues the pentalogy eluding the accuracy and precise sound design for which he's renowned, and turning to a more harmony-driven composition technique. Unlike the previous
Xerrox
albums, whose starting point is a set of samples extracted from external sources and fragments of recordings,
Vol. 4
compounds under a unified cinematic soundscape, warm chords, thrumming digital ambiences, liquified electronics, drones, and noise sustained by floods of strings. The tension between the organic warmth and static curves, broad tones into distant roars and electronic cascade of sounds. While Alva Noto's oeuvre is predominantly affiliated with pristine sound design,
Xerrox
holds more intimate gestures and emotional sensibility. This fourth volume shuns further from the conceptualism and orderliness of prior musical outputs, ranging from heart-warming elegies to mind-bending sci-fi projections in extrasolar territories.
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