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utp_ (album) - Wikipedia

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utp_

Studio album by

Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ensemble Modern

Released

September 17, 2008

Recorded

November 16, 2007

Genre

Electronic, avant-garde

Length

3:04:58

Label

Raster-Noton r-n 96-2

Producer

Michael Hock

Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ensemble Modern chronology

Revep
(2006)

utp_
(2008)

Summvs
(2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Headphone Commute	Favorable ^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]

utp_ is the fourth collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ensemble Modern is featured on the CD as well.^[3]

Reception

After the opening pair of compositions, the remaining disc consists of four pieces, played twice over, perhaps in adherence to the notion that an event only receives signification upon its repetition. In any case, the compositions are cleverly elliptical, loose, but with a complexity of inter-action that displaces the listener just enough. In fact, this balanced exchange between the air-locked ambience and freshness and seeming spontaneity of the string ensemble is one of the works strongest appeals; if only it had been in the least bit upset now and again, one suspects the results would be stronger still. When this set of pieces is played over for the second time, on the DVD, the lines undergo a re-harmonization, and the performance peaks with an enervated double-time section. Together with the visuals, this makes for a rich, steadily evolving continuum — Utopia in a surprisingly traditional sense.

—Max Schaefer, The Squid's Ear^[4]