Word: darmstadt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are Mrs. Sabine Miller-von Levetzow, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Heidelberg, and Manfred Knap, a teaching fellow at a technical school in Darmstadt...
...lecture to the festival's 180 participants, Stockhausen made it clear that he had more musical shockers in store for future Darmstadt sessions. "For centuries we have dealt with intervals of pitch," he said, "but what about similar intervals, or proportions, of rhythm, volume, timbre and other musical elements? We talk about an octave, which means the higher note has twice the vibrations of the lower, but what about an octave in volume, one level being double the other? Or a fourth of rhythm, or a major seventh of timbre...
...Darmstadt became one of Germany's two top crucibles of avant-garde music; the other is Donaueschingen, whose annual fest is shorter and less pedagogic, but whose commissions for new works carry enormous prestige...
Storing Shockers. Darmstadt's latest currents are electronic, with fiercely earnest Electronic Composer Stockhausen (TIME, Feb. 10) as chief knob spinner...
...twelve composers who contributed to Ensemble (and who sat next to the players of their segments, urging them on) were all Stockhausen disciples who went to Darmstadt specifically to work with him. This year's workshop concerts were also dominated by Stockhausen creations, especially Microphonie I, in which rubber suction cups, an electric massager, ice-cube tongs and wineglasses were scraped against a huge gong, while the resulting sounds were processed by two microphones, two electronic filters and a potentiometer...