Radio station Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

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

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

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Karlheinz Stockhausen to journalist: "I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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

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

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

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen