In bausatz noto, Carsten Nicolai, founder of the experimental label Noton, explores sound as a physical system rather than a finished composition. Using turntables, vinyl records and locked grooves, he focuses on repetition, duration and subtle variation.
Each interaction produces a different result, so no version is ever exactly the same.
How to play
This table is an instrument. Each turntable plays a vinyl record cut with locked grooves that repeat in short loops. These loops produce brief sound fragments that can be combined to produce infinitely new compositions.
You can start and stop the records, change the speed, swap discs, or let them rotate slightly off-centre. Each small adjustment changes how the sounds overlap and combine.
Use the headphones to listen carefully as layers build, repeat and shift. Pay attention to timing, repetition and silence as much as to sound.
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