UTP

UTP (per UToPia), di Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) e Sakamoto Ryuichi nasce da un invito delle città di Mannhein a sviluppare uno spettacolo audio visivo per il 400° anniversario della fondazione della città.

In questa registrazione, i due hanno abbandonato lo stile minimale fatto di tappeto elettronico + pianoforte che caratterizzava i loro lavori precedenti (Vrioon, Insen, Revep), espandendo la tavolozza timbrica anche alle sonorità di un gruppo cameristico contemporaneo, l’Ensemble Modern di Mannhein, ed a field recording realizzati nella stessa città e nei suoi dintorni.

Ecco il tutto, da you tube, 1h,11’39”.

Two videos, same music

A music video which was derived from the visuals for the Insen Live Tour of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto where it was generated in realtime and shown on a LED Screen on the stage.

The same music as soundtrack of a video showing the City of Berlin seen from the window of a train.

Chain Music

Sul sito di Sakamoto trovate Chain Music, una catena musicale fra vari artisti mantenuta in vita finché continua la guerra in Iraq.
Sakamoto scrive:

In March, 2003, when the US invaded Iraq, I felt that I had to advocate peace over war, so I started this little web project.
Even though the 100,000-plus Iraqi civilian and the 3,000-plus US military lives lost to date can’t be brought back, I want to keep this project alive and open until the war has ended, until peace comes to Iraq.
The idea is to chain musical pieces from one artist to another, like a chain letter.
The purpose is to musically mark the passage of time that Iraq is in a state of war, to mark the steps to peace, to take each day that there is war and build a musical memorial to the desire for peace as well as to mark off the time of war.
So far 22 artists have contributed their musical pieces, adding on to the existing work vertically as well as horizontally, overlaying or extending the existing creation.
There are no rules how to contribute musically, except that the contributor must not eliminate any of the existing music as he or she adds to it, because the existing music is the result of the artistic contribution of the other artists.


Questo è il link / Here is the link

Partecipano nomi di primo piano.

Att.ne: il file, si ascolta in linea via flash, ma il caricamento è molto lungo perché il tutto ormai dura 54 minuti. Dovete premere start perché inizi il caricamento. Meglio scaricare l’MP3.
Warning: the file is a flash audio/video stream 54 minutes long and it takes a lot to load. Must press start to load. Better download the MP3.

Fennesz/Sakamoto

fennesk sakamoto

Part of a 19 minute overture recorded by Claudia Engelhart at the Auditorium della Parco Musica, for the Romaeuropa Festival. This release features a laptop duet between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto at the start of their performance at Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 28th November 2004 – an introduction to a new collaboration between two highly regarded composers.
The whole performance is available as EP from Touch Tone netlabel.

Fennesz/Sakamoto – Live at Sala Santa Cecilia – estratto/excerpt