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Karlheinz Stockhausen quotes

Deutsch Composer August 22, 1928 – December 5, 2007

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Karlheinz Stockhausen to journalist: "I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth," which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it [was] varied to some extent and if it did not have a... Karlheinz Stockhausen
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
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "And harmony means that the relationship between all the..."
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. Karlheinz Stockhausen
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
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "One experiments and has to choose always the best results."
One experiments and has to choose always the best results. Karlheinz Stockhausen
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. Karlheinz Stockhausen
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
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time."
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. Karlheinz Stockhausen
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
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
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me. Karlheinz Stockhausen
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a..."
Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "But since the middle of the century in particular, the music..."
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. Karlheinz Stockhausen

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