LICHTSTIMME (Soundtrack for a Missing Movie - Part 1) [CD]

Alva Noto - LICHTSTIMME (Soundtrack for a Missing Movie - Part 1) [CD]

NOTON announce the release of LICHTSTIMME and SCHATTENSTIMME by Alva Noto: two soundtracks for a film that never existed. The starting point is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman: a world where perception and reality drift apart, and the question of identity remains unresolved. Recognition, in Hoffmann, is never quite secure. The doppelgänger is less a figure than a condition, the point at which the self can no longer vouch for itself. The first record, LICHTSTIMME begins in an open, almost weightless sonic world. Something still appears untouched. The music carries a sense of proximity, clarity and trust. But this sense of certainty does not remain. Gradually, the proportions begin to shift. Sounds lose their definitiveness; familiar structures become strange. The music begins to question its own surface. What initially appears as light already contains the possibility of its shadow. The two records follow an inner movement: from light to shadow, from trust to doubt, from identity to doppelgänger, and back to a harmony that is no longer quite the same. What emerges as an independent, personal sonic language has been transformed by the journey. The unfamiliar has not disappeared. It has become part of the self. LICHTSTIMME and SCHATTENSTIMME are records about the instability of the familiar. Something is always almost recognisable and never quite confirmed, in the story, and in the sound. Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai & Nibo.

Tracklist
01. Departure
02. Prepare
03. We are here
04. Observe
05. Encounter
06. Introduce
07. Conversation
08. Here we are
09. Shadow of a voice
10. Interrogation
11. Phantom
12. Twisted
13. Start the end