For Immediate Release: For further information please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-Flux.com, Thing.net and the Guggenheim Museum are pleased to present a cybercast of a live sound performance - Prototype 1, by Carsten Nicolai (aka noto), one of Germany�s leading young artists. The performance will take place at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Friday, February 25th, 2000 at 8 pm eastern standard time. The cybercast will commence at that time and will be available to audiences for the following 3 weeks 24 hours a day. To listen to the performance tune in at: http://www.e-flux.com/nicolai or http://bbs.thing.net Bio: Born in East Germany�s Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1965, Carsten Nicolai lives and works in Berlin. His work has been extensively exhibited in Europe, including documeta X, and more recently the Liverpool Biannial. Critical voices: �Like the sound work of Japanese artists Ryoji Ikeda, Taku Sugimoto, Merzbow and Aube, Nicolai is working to restore electricity in a more pure form to the creation of sound art. In parallel with, and enabled by more popular movements in Techno, he avoids the traditional mediators of electricity such as mass produced drum machines, synthesizers and computer sequencers, he uses tone and sinewave generators (see his collaboration with Mika Vainio, aka >> mikro makro<< ), or even sound drawn from contact miking of a magnetic tape head. In absence of comforting reference points such as repetitive rhythms or vocals, these sounds drift between the speakers, or between earphones, like sonic Rorschach blots.� Rob Young, Director of �The Wire�magazine, London (Carsten Nicolai�s work) �...makes you think about the future of music, and when he performed his work at Tonic with disk jockey Craig I-Sound on Wednesday night, it was easy to feel that he was part of a much larger societal movement.� Ben Ratcliff, The New York Times review, Friday, January 29,1999 Technical requirements: *** To be able to listen to this performance your computer must have RealPlayer software - which can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.real.com *** ......................... http://www.e-flux.com To be removed from the e-flux mailing list write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please include the word "unsubscribe" in the subject field.
