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Karlheinz Stockhausen quotes about music

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
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
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
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
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen quote: "And the invention of transformations of certain figures has..."
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. Karlheinz Stockhausen

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