Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

Electronic collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The two met in the late 1990's during Carsten Nicolai's first tour of Japan. He was subsequently commissioned to remix Sakamoto's material for the Japanese magazine Code Unfinished.

The results of a 2-year music exchange were released as Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon. Following the release of Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen they toured extensively in 2005. In 2007, the duo teamed up with Ensemble Modern to create an audio-visual performance for the 400th anniversary of the city of Mannheim. The resulting composition was released as Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto With Ensemble Modern - utp_ in 2008. The duo recorded several further albums until Sakamoto was diagnosed with cancer.