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Stockhausen, Karlheinz «Zur Situation des Metiers (Klangkomposition)»
Relevant passages:
Golo Föllmer «Audio Art» | 2
Heike Helfert «Technological Constructions of Space-Time
Aspects of Perception» Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach «Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.» | 2
Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen:
Auditorium Gesang der Jünglinge Kontakte Spherical Concert Hall Licht Mikrophonie I Originals Study I Study II Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger
Web-Links:
Nam June Paik «Global Groove» Zbigniew Rybczynski «New Book» Ed Ruscha «Every Building on the Sunset Strip» Daniela Alina Plewe «Ultima Ratio» Nam June Paik «Wrap around the World»
Karlheinz Stockhausen
* 1928 near Cologne; studied at the Conservatory and the University of Cologne; first professional contacts to the Electronic Studio of WDR in Cologne in 1951; 1950–1953 studies with Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen in Paris; 1953 permanent collaborator of the WDR-Studio; 1963–1977 artistic director of the studio to which he has kept close ties until today; teacher at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse since 1957; 1971–1977 Professor for composition in cologne.
Stockhausen is widely acclaimed as composer and theorist. He has pioneered electronic music, new uses of physical space in music, open forms, live-electronic performance, ´intuitive music´ and many other important developments in music after 1950. In his music and in his writings, he has evolved a uniquely coherent system of gerneralizations from the premises of total serialism, paying attention to aesthetic and philosophical consequences as well as to matters of technique and music theory.
