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
emptiness filled german-composer master secret sound turn visual
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.
expand finding german-composer moving sound tried ways work
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.
channel composed german-composer groups multiple solo works
Many works I have composed are only for multiple channel tapes, or for traditional instruments, solo instruments, or groups of musicians.
meaningful sound language
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
listening ears mathematics
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
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.
results experiments
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
limits
I no longer limit myself.
moving important different
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.
century middle rhythm
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
trying world musician
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
pieces
I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
moving cubes sound
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.
german-composer
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.