PreBook: cyclo.id by Carsten Nicolai

A decade since its inception on Raster Noton, Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai are relaunching their collaborative project, cyclo., a project that focuses on the visualisation of sound and seeks to create a new hybrid of visual art and music. In their shared work, they generate new hybrid forms of audiovisual art and expand the possibilities of digital technology.

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Essentially the sounds on 'Id' are inextricable from their visual corollary. They're the unmastered sonic illustrations of detailed graphical data, and vice versa, developed from a database of sounds composed to produce visual responses when analysed in real time with the help of stereo image monitoring equipment. Most importantly, the sounds are subservient to the image, hence the record remains purposefully unmastered in order to retain the waveform's original integrity when visualized through an XY phase scope, transcending the usual sound>image dynamic. Release Date: September 2011 Format: 18,5 x 23 cm Features: 328 pages, b/w, hardcover, incl. CD-Rom Language: English Publisher: Gestalten

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Carsten Nicolai: http://www.carstennicolai.de/

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Raster Noton: http://www.raster-noton.net/