alva noto - HYbr:ID session
2021
conceived during lockdown, when live performances were impossible, hybr:id session explores the concept of a performance without stage, audience, or visible performer. directed by alva noto and krsn brasko, the film shifts the focus from the artist to the instruments, devices, and visual analyzers themselves.
here, synthesizers, displays, meters, and detectors become the actual performers, while the camera adopts a microscopic view to reveal processes usually hidden during live concerts. the result is a still life of sound in which technology takes on the role of the body.
the soundtrack of hybr:id session is an autonomous composition derived from alva noto's ongoing hybr:id series — a three-part cycle of works exploring heterogeneous compositional methods that fuse geometries, dystopias, and scientific references — oscillating between stylized, dilated rhythms and dreamlike atmospheres shaped by high and low frequencies.
hybr:id session was realized with the support of the art science museum, marina bay sands, singapore.
director / art direction: carsten nicolai + krsn brasko
editing / photography / light programming: pfa-studios
digital visual programming: nibo
assistance: nibo, rosa merk, marco ciceri
objects: ems synthi a, dk audio master stereo display msd600c, istrobosoft by petersontuners, 'quarz' by carsten nicolai, fletcher munson fractal brass antenna, magnetometer, and 11 tube cosmic ray 'hodoscope' detector - build by sam conran, '3d rota' by carsten nicolai - build by rob feigel/yamaguchi - ufficio d'arte
sound: alva noto
with support of artscience museum at marina bay sands, singapore
recorded at studio carsten nicolai berlin, 10-12 nov 2021
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N-056 . alva noto . HYbr:ID I
N-061 . alva noto . HYbr:ID II
N-064 . alva noto . HYbr:ID III