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Carsten Nicolai is a co-founder of Raster-Noton Archiv Fur Ton und Nichtton (Raster-Noton Archive for Sound and Non-Sound), the imprint behind the Clear and 20’ to 2000 series. The former was an attempt to release music without anything but the music and the format it was carried on (packaged in clear casings with as little text as possible); the latter compiled a single 20-minute CD each month in the run up to the millennium. Nicolai is also a visual artist, whose sculptures, drawings, and conceptual installations have appeared around the world, including the Venice Biennale and Berlin’s Neue...

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