"Or the other process that is important is……" — 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 an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but…
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven…
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of…
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized…
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely,…
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in…
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

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