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Chasing the Light is a 90 minute programme presented by acclaimed international photographer David Noton, exploring the essentials of landscape photography, location finding, previsualisation, understanding natural light, composition and colour. The film examines the development of a photographic vision with practical hands on demonstrations, insights and examples at a number of inspiring locations and dramatic settings from a misty dawn at Glastonbury to the cliffs of Lands End and the autumnal glens of the New Forest in the south of England.

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern - utp_ (2008) [CD + DVD] {Raster-Noton r-n 96}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 409 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 181 Mb
DVD9 -> 6.23 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | Dolby AC3, 6 ch / Dolby AC3, 2 ch | ~ 113 min | ISO Image | Subs: English, Deutsch
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 149 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2008 Raster-Noton | r-n 96
Electronic / Classical / Leftfield / Avant-Garde / Glitch / Abstract / Modern Classical / Minimal

Commissioned by the city of Mannheim (Germany) for its 400th anniversary, UTP was co-composed by Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The work, whose title is deducted from the word "utopia," is scored for electronics, piano, and chamber ensemble, the latter being Ensemble Modern. It consists in extremely slow-paced tableaux of stretched out octaves and skeletal motives, a Butoh-like performance. The piece is solemn and entrancing, like Morton Feldman's music – more elegant, perhaps. It marks a new step in the evolution of Nicolai and Sakamoto's music, together and apart, as neither of them had yet concocted something this sparse, this naked.

Twenty years after its original release, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s minimalist masterpiece returns on NOTON on May 27, 2022.