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...bank of ten loudspeakers (with four technicians at the potentiometers, or volume controls), the audience strolled around the stage to pick up sounds from every angle. One player improvised his own percussion by borrowing a woman's slipper and rapping it on the platform. After four hours. Conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen finished Ensemble and, with many of his musicians still playing, led them off to a hotel for dinner...
STOCKHAUSEN: MOMENTE (Nonesuch). Karlheinz Stockhausen, the loudest noise in German electronic music, temporarily puts aside his tape recorder for something a bit-but just a bit-less far out. This time he turns on Soprano Martina Arroyo, backed by 13 instrumentalists and four choral groups equipped with sticks and boxes. The resulting hour-long piece is wild stuff all right; at times it sounds like a crowd clapping and hissing at a madwoman who jabbers and trills like a bird. The accompanying explanatory notes, formulas and diagrams are most scholarly...
...fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
...latest sample of the Beatles' astonishing inventiveness is their new single, Strawberry Fields Forever, the flip side of which is Penny Lane; it is now No. 1 in England. Written by John Lennon and McCartney-who has lately developed a passion for Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen-Strawberries is full of dissonances and eerie space-age sounds, achieved in part by playing tapes backward and at various speeds. This is nothing new to electronic composers, but employing such methods in a pop song is electrifying. At present, the Beatles are giving up tours and personal appearances, plan instead to devote...
Among composers of electronic music, there is none so mystical and dedicated as Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen. He talks about "expanded sense of time" and "sound-visions," and when he sees a sumo wrestling match in Japan, he flips because "the prolonged preparation and then the quick violent act" have a profound impact on his music. For the moment, the sounds that come out of his tape recorder put Stockhausen, 38, out in front of the avant-garde by several thousand volts...