Carsten Nicolai also known as Alva Noto is a sound artists and designer from Germany.
His work for his label Raster-Noton has been exploring minimalism in sound art for the past 20 years. This label was influenced by Bauhaus.
They were trying to find the most pure and minimal form of electronic music, only using the two most basic waveforms: sine waves and noise.
Nicolai’s work explores high frequencies. I particularly find interesting his audio-visual work, he started of by connecting a CD player into the video input of a TV, and managed to make the TV respond to his music. By using plucky high frequencies and interesting rhythms he got the TV dancing kaleidoscopically to his music.
This idea has expanded into his recent work, now in a bigger scale.