Alva Noto Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.”

“I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.”

“I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.”

“Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.”