Carsten Nicolai is artist/musician aka.noto, alva noto, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt(present Chemnitz) in 1965, lives in Berlin and Chemnitz, He uses electronic sound and visual art as a kind of hybrid- tool to create his own microscopic view of creative processes. In 1992 co-founded Voxxx.Kultur und Kommunikationszentrum, Chemnitz, in 1994 founded noton.archiv für ton und nichtton, and in 1999 founded label unit raster-noton.de.