''utp_'' is the fourth collaboration between

Alva Noto Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoj ...

and

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto i ...

Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to performing and promoting the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries. Hi ...

is featured on the CD as well.

Reception

—Max Schaefer, The Squid's Ear

Track listing

# "Attack" – 7:24 # "Grains" – 6:24 # "Particle 1" – 6:40 # "Transition" – 3:31 # "Broken Line 1" – 6:32 # "Plateaux 1" – 8:07 # "Silence" – 6:51 # "Particle 2" – 7:00 # "Broken Line 2" – 6:29 # "Plateaux 2" – 12:59

Personnel

* Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano, electronics * Alva Noto – electronics * Aaron Baird – double bass * Rainer Romer – percussion * Rumi Ogawa – percussion * Johannes Schwarz – bassoon, contrabassoon * Eva Bocker – cello * Michael M. Kasper – cello * John Corbett – clarinet, bass clarinet * Nina Jansen – clarinet, bass clarinet * Detmar Wiesner – flute, piccolo * Patrick Judt – viola * Yuval Gotlibovich – viola

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Utp (Cd) 2008 albums Alva Noto albums Ryuichi Sakamoto albums Collaborative albums Articles with underscores in the title Raster-Noton albums