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    Karlheinz Stockhausen

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    I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #cologne #electronic #electronic music #i #kinds

    In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #conceivable #down #extremely #important #inner

    It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #ears #eyes #our #our time #time

    No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #degree #different #events #important #move

    One experiments and has to choose always the best results. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #best #choose #experiments #results

    Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #around #cube #diagonally #i #loudspeakers

    Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #body #breathing #heartbeat #identify #repetition

    Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #him #i #me #never #permission

    So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #every #general #given #i #like

    Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗


    — Karlheinz Stockhausen

    #discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first






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    He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. In addition to electronic music—both with and without live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments songs chamber music choral and orchestral music to a cycle of seven full-length operas. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential not only on composers of art music but also on jazz and popular music.

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