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
Karlheinz Stockhausen quotes about
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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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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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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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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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And now even composers are proud of asking people to experience silent moments up to two or three minutes in a given piece of music.
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Already very early I thought of a microphone as a musical instrument, like a bow or like a percussion instrument, whatever you use.
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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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The more people use modern means of communication, all kinds, they call this the media, the more they are interested in the possibilities.
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I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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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.
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Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
heart breathing walking-away
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.