NOTON is pleased to announce 12 Conversations, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto.

The partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the artists spent more than two decades fusing and expanding their disciplines, with Sakamotos evocative, sustain-drenched piano compositions finding their counterpart in Nicolais skilful and sensitive electronic detailing.

Each successive project further deepened their artistic dialogue: from the five studio albums of the V.I.R.U.S. series (Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_ with Ensemble Modern, and Summvs), to their score for Alejandro G. Irritus The Revena