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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
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 they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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 of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I no longer limit myself.
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
One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
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 who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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 speeds around the public.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
New methods change the experience, and new experiences change man. Whenever we hear sounds, we are changed, we are no longer the same, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds; music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sir Thomas Beecham was asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen. He said, "No, but I once trod in some."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
Karlheinz Stockhausen