Tracklist
Uni C | 6:32 |
Uni Fac | 4:35 |
Uni Asymmetric Tone | 1:15 |
Uni Rec | 7:32 |
Uni Dia | 5:54 |
Uni Iso | 10:17 |
Uni Mode | 1:53 |
Uni Acronym | 6:23 |
Uni Asymmetric Noises | 1:52 |
Uni Deform | 3:33 |
Uni Asymmetric III-IIII | 1:29 |
Uni Syc | 5:00 |
Uni Asymmetric Sweep | 3:12 |
Uni Pro | 3:17 |
Versions (6)
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r-n 133 | Alva Noto | Univrs (CD, Album) | Raster-Noton | r-n 133 | Germany | 2011 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
R-N 133-3 | Alva Noto | Univrs Uniscope (CD, Album + DVD-D, P/Mixed) | Raster-Noton | R-N 133-3 | Germany | 2011 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
R-N133 | Alva Noto | Univrs (14xFile, FLAC, Album) | Raster-Noton | R-N133 | Germany | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
r-n 133-2 | Alva Noto | Univrs (2xLP, Album) | Raster-Noton | r-n 133-2 | Germany | 2011 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PDIP-6519 | Alva Noto | Univrs (CD, Album + DVD-D) | p*dis | PDIP-6519 | Japan | 2011 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
R-N 133 | Alva Noto | Univrs (CD, Album, Promo, Pap) | Raster-Noton | R-N 133 | Germany | 2011 | Sell This Version |
Recommendations
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Headphone_Commute
May 6, 2012
referencing Univrs, CD, Album, r-n 133
You can’t talk about Raster-Noton and not mention Carsten Nicolai. The Chemnitz (Germany) based label boss (along with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider), has a few ongoing series running for the last couple of years. In 2007, Nicolai kicked off the Xerrox series in which he examines the concept behind digital reproduction of sound. There’s also the Transall series, experimenting with rhythmically oriented sine tones and white noise. The work on Univrs develops the concepts originally explored on Unitxt (2008) – processing of single unit patterns and information stored in text. On this second installment in the series Nicolai expands his focus to broad source of data, universal language, if you will. French voice-artist Anne-James Chaton appears at the center of the album, on “Uni Acronym” reciting 208 three-letter acronyms in alphabetical order to tightly structured Notoesque signature rhythm0 The video for this amazing track can be seen here. It would be amazing to catch an audio-visual performance of Univrs, as it features real-time manipulation of software-generated test images by the audio signals, which are then fed through a custom hardware box that triggers the video signals according to the value of the audio signal. Never repetitive, but not necessarily random. As always, Nicolai manages to neatly fold zeros and ones into art, stripping away the binary, cold, and sterile fragments, until the digital signals transform into analog waveforms, that we, humans, seem to call ‘music’. This is a must for any serious collector of Raster-Noton’s catalog.
yojimbo
November 21, 2011
referencing Univrs, 2xLP, Album, r-n 133-2
One of the best releases this year and one hell of a way to torture your neighbors and record player.
johnnyha
October 24, 2011
referencing Univrs, CD, Album, r-n 133
This is one of the best albums I've heard this year. Challenging, subliminal then aggressive, quiet then forward. Its really gets better with every listen. Totally absorbing.
kruisspin
October 21, 2011
referencing Univrs, CD, Album, r-n 133
another masterpiece in this genre,IDM~voices~low bass~high tunes~rawness,play this LOUD,never mind the angry neighbours just do it.pure nourishment for a damaged brain!
hafler3o
June 2, 2017