Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. Alva Noto artisticcoincidencedecision Change image and share on social
I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds. Alva Noto createfilegenerator Change image and share on social
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? Alva Noto artisticcoincidencecreativity Change image and share on social
I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. Alva Noto artexperimentfinally share on social
Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. Alva Noto chooseinevitablylimit Change image and share on social
Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. Alva Noto closedisturbexpress share on social
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other. Alva Noto carefuldepthexist Change image and share on social
One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one. Alva Noto caseconclusioncontent Change image and share on social
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. Alva Noto balancecomprehensionconceptional Change image and share on social
