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Digital Musics & Sound Art Goldene Nica - Golden Nica 2000

20' to 2000

Carsten Nicolai
By synthesising product and artwork, concept and design, serial form and individual signature into a single event-structure, 20' to 2000 became the ultimate curated series. A different production for each month of the last year of the 20th Century, it encapsulates and probably concludes the 90s fascination for serial projects familiar from producers such as Richie Hawtin and Thomas Brinkman and labels such as Kompakt. It´s difficult to see how anyone can exceed the light touch of this sober limited edition series.

notorious for the close interaction between experimental forms of music, art and science, label noton announces a new series of 12 “20 minutes” cds. the artistic concept behind it, is the creation of a piece for the last 20 minutes of the year 1999 as a cutting edge of the century.
20' to 2000 is a monthly magazine-like release for the last year of this millennium. in the 12 issues 12 artists are invited to write down their ideas, possibly a manifest of the millennium; design for the series uses new technologies and the characteristic translucent materials of noton.
all issues are limited and released at the end of every month. A binding magnet construction-kit for the 12 cds will be designed and produced by “bless”, a designer company based in paris and berlin.

timetable for 20' to 2000
01 komet germany, rastermusic, member of signal, product
02 ilpo vaisanen finland, sähkö, blast first, member of pan sonic
03 ryoji ikeda japan, touch, cci, member of dumb type
04 coh russia, rastermusic
05 beytone germany, rastermusic, member of signal, product
06 senking germany, karaoke kalk, work also as kandis
07 thomas brinkmann germany, ernst label
08 scanner united kingdom, subrosa
09 noto germany, noton, rastermusic, member of product, signal
10 mika vainio finland, sähkö, blast first, Ø, philus, member of pan sonic
11 wolfgang voigt germany, profan, studio 1, mike ink, gas
12 elph united kingdom, members of coil
issued monthly


rastermusic/noton is a albel cooperation for electronic music based in Germany. In 1999 both artist labels rastermusic and noton.archiv für ton und nichtton merged. Rastermusic was founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider in 1996. Their main interest was to give repetitive minimal-music following the direction of pop. Noton.archiv fuer ton und nichtton was founded by Carsten Nicolai nore as a platform for conceptional and experimental-related projects in music, art and science.