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. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
“Karlheinz Stockhausen to journalist: "I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth," which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
