Alva Noto quotes

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. (Alva Noto)
There is always room for coincidence. View quote
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. View quote
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You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy. View quote
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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other. View quote
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I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. View quote
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Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. View quote
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The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? View quote
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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. View quote
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One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one. View quote
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