|
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Influence on Today's Electronic Music. By by Holger Czukay (Can) (August 1997) "He is so incredibly German. If you listen to the music of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen you can hardly believe that such a man of the old school and with such a sense for innovations of the musical language had nevertheless influenced the young electronic wizzards' community of the nineties with their often uncomplicated methods regarding music as an endless dance environment. And he never became a fan of popular music in general to my knowledge." http://www.furious.com/Perfect/stockhausen.html#  Holger Czukay (who was once a student of Stockhausen, before he started with CAN) wrote about this piece: “Four musicians were standing at a huge tam-tam with some “creation tools” and a microphone in their hand. The tam-tam was prepared at parts with chalk or colophony so that a hard paper bucket for example could scratch upon the chalk- or colophony field (The material which a violinist is contacting his bow to before he starts playing so that he is able to create a tone). Or an electric razor was another device which created a rich world of sounds, when it was touching the surface of the tam-tam. Two microphones was scanning the different sound areas of the tam-tam and got connected with 2 Maihak W49 radio play Eq’s, passive filters with a strong cutting characteristics (years later I was able to get hold of them at an undertaker’s shop). Stockhausen was sitting in the audience at a little mixer and created something like a “tam-tam live dub mix”. If you are able to attend such a performance these days, it still would sound completely up to date. Such a thing together with a right DJ could perfectly fit into the end of the nineties.” http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=266# |
_______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
