German - Composer | August 22, 1928 - December 5, 2007
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
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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.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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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.
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