Alva Noto

"As though reflecting his real-life story, Sakamoto revels in finding hope and optimism in his collaborations."

Two giants of experimental electronics face off. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto at Sydney Opera House The path to the Opera House is noisy.

If it had not been for director Inarritu, who brought them back together in 2015 to make them work on the score of his film The Revenant, perhaps the duo would have parted ways, considering also that Sakamoto was still recovering from throat cancer.

You should always jump at the chance of going to a show at Funkhaus Berlin. The hour-plus trek it takes to get there, in this case, in tundra temperatures and black ice skies, is briskly forgotten as you approach a building loaded with the same volume of intriguing history as it is state-of-the-art audio deli

Alva Noto live in Berlin Getting to Funkhaus in the depths of the Berlin winter can be a daunting task. Located in Treptow-KOpenick, it's at least a 30-minute trek across town for most people. By the time you've walked another ten minutes along the icy River Spree, the warmth and shelter of the immense brick

Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark on May 28, 2011

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto in London The fifth outing for the craft helmed by Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto launched the conspirators into a zone darker than any reached on its previous expeditions: the pair negotiated asteroid belts of spectral granulation, and navigated along unprecedented solar