20' to 2000

2000

Carsten Nicolai (DE)

12 different 20-minute compact disks + a magnetic link system

20 minutes
2000 years
what is time, a point in time, a leap in time, the future?

a series of cds attempts to formulate this question; 12 individual statements-issued monthly-each adopt a position. making full use of a year's time span, the zeitgeist manifests itself in electronic music. in 1999, raster-noton. archive of sound and non-sound released 12 compact disks in an industrial, semi-transparent case bearing the logo of a klein bottle, a mathematical construction of an infinite space. the logo is programmatic; 12 particles-12 x 20 min. signatures-are released into an endless space. magnetic bridges fuse the 12 cases into a self-contained object. this object could be regarded as a manifesto, a contemporary documentation, or simply as the public release of electronic music from the year 1999.

timetable
01 *komet*, frank bretschneider(d)
02 ilpo vaisanen (sf)
03 ryoji ikeda (j)
04 *coH*, ivan pavlow (rus)
05 *byetone*, olaf bender (d)
06 *senking*, jens massel (d)
07 thomas brinkmann (d)
08 scanner, robin rimbaud (uk)
09 *noto*, carsten nicolai (d)
10 mika vainio (sf)
11 *gas*, wolfgang voigt (d)
12 *elph*, john balance und peter christopherson (uk)


Concept: Carsten Nicolai/D
Coordination: Peter Rehberg/UK

Eine Veranstaltung von Ars Electronica in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Posthof Linz.
A project of Ars Electronica in co-operation with Posthof Linz.