im so baked right now. i was listening to this guy speak while reading the english subtitles, then i forgot i was actually reading the subtitles and for a split second i thought i could understand german. that momen, i was god.

He releases under the name alva noto. Look him up. He's a magician.

This was very, very nice. I love seeing people so devoted to something.

agreed! creativity, devotion, new ways of thinking!

I like what he said about electronic music not containing any emotion or purpose. It is sad to see people bag on the electronic music scene when they really don't understand what it's all about. They say it's just random noises and sound, lacks emotion, humanism, that it's garbage. The true meaning of electronic music is to find the rhythm inside the machine, to lose yourself in the sound and express emotion through both chaos and order. Mr. Nicolai expresses this through light patterns as well.

Judging from what I know about sound; he first started to record sounds that the human ear can't pick up and created a visual representation of sounds never heard that are all around us. He then (I think) scanned a building's architecture and converted it to sound (think sonar). He then took digital errors in sound (google it) and matched the frequencies w/ a piano in the same key only transposed to a lower more pleasant pitch w/ the lowest being made the bass and so forth...

Electronic media as mystical experience. Never before so closer to the axioms from the fabric of the Universe (math) yet so free and creative with it.

This is amazing

At the end there is a recommendation for a video called "controlling sound with your face and vice versa" but the video is not available :(

Wunderbar auch mal wieder seiner Muttersprache im Internet zu begegnen.

nice

Immer schön darauf geachtet, dass alles richtig Übersetztwurde, was der Ostdeutsche Künstler von sich gegeben hat.

Represents certain sound waves with lasers or screens. In the end it's a great light show and trippy music :)

im german .. even i have moments like this :'D i translated english to german for my sister in a television serie while we were watching it ... then the subtitles changed to german and i continued translating it xD .. so .. i just read it for her .. wich is kind of nice too...

Very similar to Ryoji Ikeda. I think they already collaborated, and his nickname is "Alva Noto"...

Same roots!

Sinus functions :-)

yes

What exactly is he doing???

wow.

Vice liked this.

Geo me try Sound light this sound like fun

that is actually the funniest thing i have read on youtube

Sound actually travels in longitudinal waves not transverse waves. They are only depicted as transverse because it is easier for the masses to understand.

Highya, same here man! easily won.

Все таки стоило сказать, что это фигуры Лиссажу

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SSAAAAAAUUUOOOONNND

The future is in berlin

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@420SanJuan Haha nice... if u want i can help u to learn german ;)

so basicly hes wasting my time.

This guy chucks constarch into a pan, adds a contact-mic. and then watches the starch dry to a sine-wave... see what "interesting" patterns appear. Whoosh. High-brow installation. So up his own arse. Art colleges, you have so much to answer for.

agreed! creativity, devotion, new ways of thinking!