Alva Noto

“I'm interested in the translation of information from one field to another.”

“Minimalism is not about having less, it is about making every component count.”

“For me, sound is a very powerful tool to create an emotional landscape.”

“The beauty of errors is that they create something new, something you didn't expect.”

“I see my work as a research process, an ongoing investigation into the nature of perception.”

“Technology is just a tool. It's about the idea behind it.”

“Silence is not the absence of sound, but a different kind of sound.”

“I'm very much inspired by scientific phenomena, by physics, by chemistry.”

“Rhythm is something that connects us all. It's a fundamental part of life.”

“A sine wave is the purest form of sound, the atom of acoustics.”

“The reduction to the essential is a central theme in my work.”

“I am always looking for the space between things, the gaps and the pauses.”