Word: electronist
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...Electronist Stockhausen started out as a comparatively conventional rebel in the Anton von Webern atonal vein but soon felt he had "dried up" and started looking for new effects. At Cologne he can get just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters plus generators that may rumble, screech, thunder, and produce other items of planned flatulence. By varying the signals sent to the 20 loudspeakers spotted about the auditorium, Stockhausen can make his sounds swoosh along a wall, tinkle in a corner or explode over the head of the audience. He first...
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