Recent posts tagged Karlheinz Stockhausen
2021
The Artificers
Something is not "artificial" because of its means of production, but if the act of producing it, in whatever form, goes against your inner convictions.
2013
Astonish Me Dept.
"I demand two things from a composer: invention, and that he astonish me." What did Stockhausen mean by this?
2012
Not Fade Away Dept.
Looks like I wasn't alone in feeling that SF is losing its luster, but that just makes my job as a creator of same all the tougher.
2010
Klanggalerie Dept.
On the face of the evidence, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra is that composer's most widely-recorded and -performed piece. There's the Bevan/Mikashoff recording which I reviewed; the Kontarsky version issued through Deutsche Grammophon / Stockhausen Verlag; the Corver/Grotenhuis version (Stockhausen's alleged favorite,...
2008
Kontakte (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Really, this is where it all started with me. Before Godflesh and Merzbow, before Meat Beat Manifesto and Suicide, before John Cage even, there was Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte, recorded over fifty years ago and yet still sounding timeless. Our ears,...
2001
Mantra (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Almost everything that German 20th-century composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has done has invigorated or fascinated me in a number of different ways. I stumbled across an LP of his legendary tape piece Kontakte in the public library and was forever fascinated...
