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
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And with every work I have tried to expand my experience, moving sound and space, and finding new ways of superimposing different tempos and rhythms.
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As I say, this is a new secret science, to master the emptiness and turn it into something that is filled with sound and visual images.
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So, for example, I produced a layer of sounds with the syllables sung by a young boy and elements from an impulse generator with filtered noises.
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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.
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I knew that the synthesis of sound and space music would be the most important aspect of the music of our time and of the future, since '53.
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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.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Many works I have composed are only for multiple channel tapes, or for traditional instruments, solo instruments, or groups of musicians.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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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.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.