Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausenwas a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most importantbut also controversialcomposers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music". He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, aleatoryin serial composition, and musical spatialization...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 August 1928
CountryGermany
play different singers
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.
listening ears mathematics
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
firsts etc musician
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.
art september-11 cosmos
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
meaningful sound language
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
heart breathing walking-away
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
important sound transformation
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.
hearing sound cases
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.
people soul sound
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.
inspiring discovery invention
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.