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Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto

Electronic collaboration between and . The two met in the late 1990's during 's first tour of Japan. He was subsequently commissioned to remix Sakamoto's material for the Japanese magazine Code Unfinished. The results of a 2-year music exchange were released as [m9557]. Following the release of [m9553] they toured extensively in 2005. In 2007, the duo teamed up with to create an audio-visual performance for the 400th anniversary of the city of Mannheim. The resulting composition was released as [m9559] in 2008. The duo recorded several further albums until Sakamoto was diagnosed with cancer.