Attack/Transition (LP6 & LP7: Utp_ with Ensemble Modern) (6:56)
Grains (6:46)
Particle 1 (6:13)
Transition (1:47)
Broken Line 1 (8:07)
Plateaux 1 (8:26)
Silence (7:50)
Particle 2 (5:55)
Broken Line 2 (6:26)
Plateaux 2/End (12:49)
Microon I (LP8 & LP9: Summvs) (2:54)
Reverso (6:28)
Halo (6:48)
Microon II (2:36)
Pionier IOO (5:48)
Ionoscan (4:06)
By This River (4:15)
Naono (11:09)
Microon III (2:49)
By This River - Phantom (7:52)
Monomom (5:23)
Kizuna (5:16)
Review: Spanning five EPs beginning with the 2002 EP 'Vrioon', the VIRUS compendium marks an important era in the shared history of minimalist magna Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto. The look-back comes after the duo first connected through a mutual appreciation for each other's work in the early 2000s: Sakamoto had become interested in experimental electronica and came across Nicolai's (Noto's) minimalisms under the Alva Noto moniker. Intrigued by the precision and texture of Nicolai's sound, Sakamoto reached out; though he was hardly able to predict the unbalanced, restlessly abstract expressionist sound to follow: the sonic equivalent of a sputtery colour field painting.
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