Carsten Nicolai: Golden Nica Digital Music Award, Ars Electronica 2000 "20' to 2000" Video: Performance Live in Berlin: http://alternativemuseum.org/tam_monitor http://www.contour.net 12 different 20-minute compact disks + a magnetic link system 20 minutes 2000 years what is time, a point in time, a leap in time, the future? a series of cds attempts to formulate this question; 12 individual statements-issued monthly-each adopt a position. making full use of a year's time span, the zeitgeist manifests itself in electronic music. in 1999, raster-noton. archive of sound and non-sound released 12 compact disks in an industrial, semi-transparent case bearing the logo of a klein bottle, a mathematical construction of an infinite space. the logo is programmatic; 12 particles-12 x 20 min. signatures-are released into an endless space. magnetic bridges fuse the 12 cases into a self-contained object. this object could be regarded as a manifesto, a contemporary documentation, or simply as the public release of electronic music from the year 1999. timetable 01 *komet*, frank bretschneider(d) 02 ilpo vaisanen (sf) 03 ryoji ikeda (j) 04 *coH*, ivan pavlow (rus) 05 *byetone*, olaf bender (d) 06 *senking*, jens massel (d) 07 thomas brinkmann (d) 08 scanner, robin rimbaud (uk) 09 *noto*, carsten nicolai (d) 10 mika vainio (sf) 11 *gas*, wolfgang voigt (d) 12 *elph*, john balance und peter christopherson (uk) Concept: Carsten Nicolai/D Coordination: Peter Rehberg/UK A project of Ars Electronica in co-operation with Posthof Linz.
