ALVO NOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

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We eagerly wait in darkness and absolute silence. Two legends, in unison. Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto are about to take us to new realms. Alva Noto’s delicate noise tapestry sets the mood as a visual landscape of simple shapes and forms embody the subtle beauty of minimalism’s gradients and movements.

ALVO NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

A triple helix of lines and white dots dance, twirl, and flow appropriately.

Every second is stretched to infinity.

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ALVO NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

A swell of cosmic proportions emanates from human singularity.

All they need are mono synths, a guitar, glitch noises, and a grand piano.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

All we need is to breathe, to feel, to experience, to exist.

A rhythmic pattern of beeps and bleeps remind us of our timely existence.

Alva Noto’s static reminds us of the beauty of the imperfect. Wabi-Sabi.

While Ryuichi ’s carefully executed keys show us the beauty of precision.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

The bass weights on us like a heavy burden, tailed by a coarse shriek that is only rescued by Ryuichi’s hopeful classical piano.

It comes to synchronize our hearts to flashing intermittent lighting bright enough to make us gasp and remind us that all we need is to take a breath.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

Hypnotized. A full house in silence.

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We take a second.

We take a minute.

We take an hour.

They rescue us from our vapid yet rapid lives.

We become aware of the irony of minimalist analog digital landscapes being our only escape from our modern world’s digital information overload.

It is now, in this timeless and ethereal space  that we meditate through carefully crafted sound waves,  full of identity and colour.

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ALVO NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO // Photo – Prudence Upton

We experience the vastness of the void along more than 2,000 other sentient beings. Full house.

Mesmerized, relaxed, surrendered, intrigued. Pure ecstasy.

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AMNPLIFY – RL