Alva Noto Quotes

"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."
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(Related: Content, Sound)

"You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy."
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(Related: Time, Energy)

"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."
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(Related: Work, Question, Space)

"There is always room for coincidence."
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"Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out."
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(Related: Open, Options)

"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."
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(Related: Sacrifice, Variety)

"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."
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(Related: Decision, Nothing)

"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."
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(Related: Open, Running, Word)

"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"
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(Related: Work, Creativity, Logic, Questions)

"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
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(Related: Balance, Understanding)

"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."
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(Related: Art, Time, Sound)

"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."
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(Related: Media, Want)

"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."
- Alva Noto
(Related: Decision, Choice, Logic)