Actually, a long time ago, I recorded it in the very late That reminds me that a very unique sound of New York is the sound of airĬonditioning, AC. When you think, “Wow, what a great sound, what a great mix of different things.” The subway or ventilation or machinery going all night. And, of course, you can always find moments The city is really a machine,īecause of the density and so on. Go and look that up on the video - you kind of like those spaces in between and when there’s certain structures emerging that you don’t really expect. The feeling that Carsten – who, by the way, had a lecture here before that is very recommendable, you should Of a lot of delays between the conversations.Īnd those create other new spaces for other sounds to get into, right? I have Languages, but also, most of the time it’s been feeding back between theĭrivers and the station, so it sounds very, very kind of topical to me because But there used to be a lot of that, I loved that.Īll the different languages that they used?

I used to like the radio communication in the taxi between the taxi driver and the station, but nowadays they’ve been using cell phones so it’s not very When do you like the sound of the city the best?įor starters, yeah, seeing that we’re here now. Do you feel the city sounds different when it rains?

Please give them a warm welcome.īoth of you have been in the city quite a lot. Our week is coming to an end and we figured it’s probably time to slow the BPM’s a little bit down, and in order to do so it is our honor to welcome two experts in this, Mr. In their 2013 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, the unlikely duo discusses their respective musical backgrounds, their approach to collaboration, their absorbing live performances, and more. Consistently pushing boundaries in electronic music, these are two musicians who will always be ahead of the game. The pair met when Carsten was performing in Tokyo, and the introduction led to them working together and forming their own unique electronic sound, with Sakamoto’s minimal piano complementing Nicolai’s glowing digital tapestry. Sakamoto has collaborated with many others since then, including David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Iggy Pop, and Berlin-based electronic music artist Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai).

This also marked one of his finest musical unions with Japan frontman David Sylvian. Sakamoto also pursued his own solo work, achieving a commercial breakthrough as YMO split up with his score to the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Making abundant use of new synthesizers, samplers and recording technology, they pioneered a new electro-pop sound, with tracks like “Firecracker / Computer Game” becoming electro classics in the east and west. Ryuichi Sakamoto came to worldwide fame as a member of influential Japanese synth-pop outfit Yellow Magic Orchestra.

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