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01. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Microon I
02. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Reverso
03. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Halo
04. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Microon II
05. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Pionier IOO
06. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Ionoscan
07. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - By This River
08. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Naono
09. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - Microon III
10. ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - By This River - Phantom
ARTIST
TITLE
Summvs
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
R-N 132CD R-N 132CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/12/2011

2016 repress. Raster-Noton releases the album Summvs, the latest result of the unusual creative partnership between the Oscar-prize honored film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the fine artist and electronic music pioneer Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. The name of the artists' fifth collaborative release Summvs refers to the Latin word "summa" (engl.: sum) and "versus" (engl.: towards), serving as a metaphor for the work being oriented towards a collaborative whole. Summvs is the last of a series of five releases that started with Vrioon (R-N 050CD) in 2002 and continued with 2005's Insen (R-N 065CD) and Revep (R-N 072CD) and Utp_ (R-N 096DVD) in 2007. Passages of sparse yet emotionally-charged and passionate piano solos are embedded in sine waves or reworked to establish new aesthetics of piano sound. Sparse percussions and throbbing bass pulses hover above and below -- the music being contemplative and minimal at the same time. The tracks "Microon I-III" contain recordings of one of the 15 pianos using a 16th tone interval tuning built by Sauter, Spaichingen/Donaueschingen, Germany. The original "Piano Metamorfoseador En Dieciseisavos De Tono" was designed by Julián Carrillo Trujillo. Thanks to the music department of Berne University of the Arts for making this instrument available. Included in the album are two cover versions of the track "By This River," originally written by Roedelius, Moebius and Brian Eno in 1977. In their instrumental versions of the song, Nicolai and Sakamoto create and investigate the song's appeal in both normal speed and slow motion. Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and Alva Noto on electronics will present this fifth collaborative release live with a uniquely-styled visualization and a state-of-the-art technical setting and stage design.