“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… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus. — 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
