Among sound-art aficionados, Carsten Nicolai enjoys princely status. Operating under his own name as well as under the pseudonym Alva Noto, Nicolai has collaborated with such luminaries as Ryoji Ikeda and Einstürzende Neubauten front man Blixa Bargeld. In an unlikely coup for an experimental musician, Nicolai, in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, composed the score for the 2015 Hollywood film The Revenant. He also makes visual art, much of which reflects his interest in science. His works are often ambitiously scaled; for a (alpha) pulse, 2014, he projected synchronized light frequencies onto