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  • This is like audio nightmare. Talk about fucked up. Too creepy for words. I don't think I can listen to any more

  • @theaknoize It's a piece intended to glorify God, which probably tells you all you need to know about Karlheinz Stockhausen. You should hear it in 5-channels man, very very intense experience.

  • The beatles, AFX, radiohead, deadmau5 anyone who has experimented with and makes electronic music must be influenced by this guy in some way or other. But I think two of the four spring to mind, most certainly

  • @theaknoize Actually, The Beatles once said in an interview that if they could have anyone in the audience of this imaginary concert (they were talking on a recording of a song), they would pick Stockhausen :)

  • 6:30 sounds like a rubberband

  • im speechless

  • so industrial

    

  • This is fucking genius!

  • i guess they caught r2d2

  • @DeathGrub word!

  • omg, we're actually dealing with this in music class!

    best topic EVER

  • 8:10 - 8:45 wundervoll & inspirierend.

  • Hurz!

    Der Wolf, das Lamm, auf der grünen Wiese...

    HURZ!

    Und das Lamm schrie

    HURZ!

    Der Wolf, das Lamm, ein Lurch lugt hervor!

  • @ibolang61

    Das ist zwar lustig von Harpe, aber wenn da der Zugang zur modernen Musik endet, ist es traurig.

  • @knoblauchtv Ich habe zu "Gesang der Junglinge" genauso wenig Zugang wie zu "Hurz" (so man es als "moderne Musik" verkaufen würde). Und meinen Musikgeschmack muss wohl ich mit mir ausmachen. Musikgeschmack kann man keinem anderen aufzwängen.

  • @ibolang61 Ach?! ich dachte schon ich könnte das anderen Leuten aufzwingen! Dann nehm ich das natürlich zurück.

  • Finally i know where the voices in my head come from :-D

  • I thought Stockhausen was a german pornstar...

  • @westgoten He was ! He invented the sexual position called "Rügenwalder Teewurst und Wienerschnitzelmitsauerkrauuuu­t !"...

  • I don't do acid, but I did a show with the shadows of my hands and my cellphone's screen light on my bedroom's walls at night while listening to this. Scared the shit outta me.

  • @JBrrou i did quite the same thing on acid , it scared the shit out of me too but i had to stab myself with a pen to get out of the trip .

  • science bless youtube

  • ...and mr. david guetta thinks that he is in the avant-garde.

  • Und!

    

  • Experimentation, error, neo-punk, well we are TRANSVESTITEstallion the experimental band and we owe a lot to Stockhause

  • super

    come on

  • MAn came on me

  • BRRRRRRRR. lLOl

  • I have a 13 minute version of this. Either way. I love it when Stockhausen comes up on random play :-)

  • @beefheartvliet LOl just read the Description, So no Trolling on me ;-)

  • Oh ffuck that acid was a bad choice goddamn german girls & bats in myrtsdgvcxalidsgsg

  • to what some people dont understand is, that if you go far back enough you will find out that music today has no meaning. Kids today dont appreciate what they have, with their rap and shit they dont know where its all rooted. They say there are 2 main branches of music one of them being Country and the other IDR... any how the idea is that later new seeds like Trance and this dude right here CREATED Techno, so what you have now, is basiclly Pop music with a synth on it. so be happy

  • that's morbid...

  • this is an art...it's called B. S. art.

  • @DeathGrub this does not go beyond the level of noise...music is noise but much more...this is noise and no more

  • @dalecampbl5 What is this, then, with the notes and the rhythms and whatnot?

  • @ultrastupido my turd has color and odor and texture...is it ART?

  • @trompette1 LOL

  • @trompette1 More like 100. Did someone just see a Dada-poster and become terribly upset? ... "It's un-patriotic! Not to mention, there's weird sounds in the music all of a sudden. I've barely gotten used to the Saxophone, and now this! These damnable Futurists and their noise-machines... If this continues, where will we be ONE HUNDRED YEARS from now?! We need a good ol' war to set things straight and these troubles in the Balkans looks like just the ticket... "

  • @dalecampbl5 in some forms to some people yes...

  • @DJHeroMist well "some people" are questionably mental

  • @dalecampbl5 i know im not all here :D what about you :D

  • @DJHeroMist I'm good enough to decipher the difference between good classical music and noise

  • @dalecampbl5 at least you know :D

  • @dalecampbl5 Ask Piero Manzoni.

  • @dalecampbl5 You should give up music. Seriously. If you can't hear the composed quality of this, you simply do not have the talent for it. I'm against blind worship of seminal composers, but still... It's not exactly Cage, now is it? It's anything but random. No worries: try painting. Visit your local museum and see if you can actually see the compositions, color, texture etc. Still nothing? Try literature. Hell, try sports. I hear football is very popular.

  • @Metamusik well I'm not a musician, i just listen, I enjoy it, I hear the patterns, etc...at least in Romantic/Classical/Baroque and some 20th century music. You honestly think this kind of music is so unique and special that people can't (with a little effort) pull it out of their asses?

  • @dalecampbl5 I really don't understand your argumentation here. With a little effort? With a massive show of effort, more like. This is a serial-composition after all, the most minute attention to detail known to western music. Even if it was easy (it's arguably far easier these days when you don't have to edit it on tape) does that really matter? A good Baroque-composer could probably pull a Fugue out of their ass "with a little effort", but who cares?

  • @dalecampbl5 When you say: This is not "Music" but "Noise", it tells me you haven't really listened to either. I'm not surprised everyone doesn't understand, say, Cage's 4'33, that piece requires a fundamental shift in perspective, a de-emphasis on composer and an emphasis on context and listening. But this?? It's not even microtonal for gods sake; it's about as wacky as Ave Maria...Which coincidentally Gounod "pulled out of his ass" while jammin' out to Prelude No.1 in C-major.

  • me encanta es a la música lo que Pablo Picasso y Salvador Dalí a la pintura, un transgresor, un provocador, en fin, un artista. Y sólo los que olvidan lo aprendido y con ello se han metamorfoseado, pueden apreciar el otro lado. Si no, les parecen simples ruidos ininteligibles. Y esto debe seguir así.

  • @DeathGrub

    you know, a scholar of karl who worked for many years with him and learned under him came to our school (i live in germany ) in 12th grade and talked about his experience, you know, and he said that when the beatles incorporated ideas they had into their music they were flattened because suddenly they had at least the knowledge that there are people in music who get them.

    he also played us an original acetate he had from this song.

  • WIN...

    ...

    ...

    TERR

    Man, this is one of the few musical pieces that makes me laugh out loud.

  • This is useful.

  • @DeathGrub It's possible to escape from tonality, but it's less akin to escaping from a room by means of a door than to escaping from life by means of a bullet. We're not coming with you, and the future is ours.

  • I just finished the entire piece...my mind is completely fucked...

  • wonderful music! Stockhausen is so important and influential.

  • I love you i love you la da dee la da da I love you glub glub glub, I love you

  • Don't really know what to feel when i hear this. It makes me extremely uncomfortable, though lol

  • makes me feel like im drowning....

  • ok this is fucking crazy holy fuck :o

  • Psychidellic

  • the mind is an interesting and sometimes terrible thing to taste.

    a scrambled brain can exist in different times and altered spaces at once.

    like everything can be anything if it is not one thing...

  • this scares me

    

  • @DeathGrub Word.

  • listen to "23 cromosomi" by Franco Battiato. he tooks some piece of this composition and assembled them in a new - and very ipnotic - way.

  • I like to listen to certain songs when I'm in certain moods, but in all honesty I would NEVER be in the "right mood" for this song.

  • If this isn't music, then everything that people consider "music" isn't music. Why would our definition of the twelve-tone system and harmony be the only criteria for a beautiful sound? If your definition of music is "Sounds based on theory developed between 1500 and 1900 in Western Europe," I'm sorry, but you are extremely closed-minded.

  • Freakin awesome....

  • creepy o.O ...

  • Esto es una maravilla...Una maravilla.Han surgido mil imágenes y torrentes de cánticos...

    UNA MARAVILLA...

  • Mother of god...

  • Over a half-century later, this still sounds amazingly fresh and original.

  • this is like the big bang of electronic music

  • religion! :D

  • biggest horro freak shit i've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    

  • This song sounds totally schizoid.

  • I personally do not see how this is "music." You have to have a wide definition to call it "music". And just because I say that does not mean I am calling this stupid.

  • @dumm3rjunkie This might not seem like music through use of intuition, but it has the same method of creation and inevitable product as any other piece of music. I honestly can't see how one could consider it not being music.

  • @WizMystery Yeah man, that is good for you. I personally do not think of this as music. And that is alright.

  • @dumm3rjunkie ich hab auch mal gedacht dass man das nicht musik nennen kann. bis mir auffiel, dass musik alles sein kann, was aus einer verbindung von klängen besteht in welche ALLES hineininterpretiert werden kann. Stockhausen gefällt mir sehr wenn man sich eine geschichte dazu denkt. als kleiner denkanstoss: gesang der jünglinge ist eine geschichte biblischen vorbilds. die kinder werden in einen feuerkessel geschmissen, überleben aber da ihr glaube an gott sehr stark ist.

  • I'm the only who can find sentiments in that piece???

  • He is one of our rolemodels, we are TRANSVESTITEstallion and we Love stockhausen, he was like us, we love his music...

  • @ChristopherDone Did you think about that at all before you said it? If a peice had an all percussion middle section would it stop being music for a few minutes and then pick back up later? And he didn't say anything about what music you should like, he said that it is wrong to say this isn't music. You responded by saying that it isn't music because you don't like it, which is far closer to telling people what music they should like than what he said.

  • Coming from a noise and Industrial music fan...

    this is fucking awesome..

  • You know that episode of sponge bob when squid-ward time travels

  • @JimCrowize what a goof ball thing to say. you and my little children would have a lot to discuss about music I'm sure. a nice childish conversation about Sponge Bob no doubt.

  • bumm .... !! Cool !!!!

  • Am i on acid?

  • his music is what drives me to write such crazy stories; this guy is a genuis in the respect he write not music, but the sounds of an intoxicated brain.

  • my god it's full of stars

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  • I could only get 50 seconds in before I got too creeped out. I'm alone in my apartment and this is terrifying. I'll have to try again another time :)

  • WTF is that?

  • you gotta be kidding me

  • es gibt auch einige melodien hier..

  • Being interested in sound design, this music is the exact of what I call influential to the electronic music era, including the use of synthesisers. Im really into the whole experimental music, and when people say things like "this isn't music because it has no melody" then let me ask you this... John Cage said "Music is NOT always the sound of a tuneful melody..." and Stockhousen is one of my biggest influences in a lot of what I do, and influence for others too.

  • I wish I could have met Stockhausen,He was very inspirational...I'm going to make my own Gesang Der Junglinge type collage.

  • In some moments it reminds me STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, while playing the game you can hear these disturbing noises coming out of centre of Zone.

  • kind f creppy

  • This is so cool sounding. I didn't know this guy inspired Miles Davis's "space music".

  • this is fuckin scary

  • Haha! I´ll put this on in my parents bedroom at a small but still slightly hearable volume at 2 am >:D

  • Somebody please explain to me why his music is noteworthy. And don't paraphrase wikipedia or go all artsy fartsy, seriously sombody give me an honest answer with personal insight.

  • @tapaddtiiiii I'm a dancer and when I'm looking for a music that's what I do, that's how I know if I like a music or not. Listen to sthg you really like, close your eyes and really carefully listen to it...folllow all the little evolutions you can perceive...picture yourself anything the music makes you feel of... You'll know automatically if you like it or not, but you'll never hear the music like anyone else... My teacher used to tell me "connect with yourself" (I hope this helped you...:) )

  • @tapaddtiiiii because its a different and experimental approach to sound!

  • @tapaddtiiiii because its a different and experimental approach to sound!

  • interesting

  • Stockhausen rules.

  • ive just run out of green. ahs fooked!

  • This is kind of scary!

  • komisch, dass hier so viele amis reinschreiben. wenn man deren zeug hier so liest wird klar, dass sie nie wirklich über steve reich rausgekommen sind.

  • Stockhausen was a bastard. he talk about about 9/11 as "a biggest masterpiece of artwork ever"

    “das größte Kunstwerk, was es je gegeben hat”

  • @TheKomando007 you do have to take into account that Stockhausen thought he was from a planet called Sirius 7. And believed he was abducted by aliens. And was also probed by those aliens on several occasions . . .

  • @JamieSOA

    yes i did,

  • @TheKomando007

    ok, it wasnt the biggest, but the ill leaders of america did all to make people think it would be.

    in some future people won´t differ it from neros burning rome

  • @1533Montaigne

    I speak about Stockhausen and his admiration of mass murderers.

    He has had no one word of compassion to the victims.

    And because of that he was in my opinion an old, perverted german nazi, probably fan of holocaust.

  • @TheKomando007

    american fascists vote for mass murderers like bush and obama.

    no idea if they admire them, but they are responsible for these killers.

    now they are lucky to kill muslims, but probably they want to destroy the whole planet.

  • @1533Montaigne

    excuse me, but do you have mental problems?

  • @TheKomando007

    far too high level here for you. don´t rack your brain.

  • @TheKomando007 read the wikipedia article about Stockhausen, where it is explained that that comment was taken out of the context of previous statements, in which the comment is better understood.

  • @TheKomando007

    Both Stockhausen's parents were killed by Nazi's - his mother was given a lethal injection dues to Nazi policy of killing "useless eaters". He is fully aware what Right Wing propaganda looks like. It is the art of propaganda. A terrible thing happened and it was capitalized on by interested parties to fortify a nationalist military agenda.

  • @TheKomando007 Um, no he didn't. He said "It is the devil's greatest work of art", meaning it was a terrible thing. But people misunderstood it.

  • @StanleyKSCBP

    He said:

    "Also was da geschehen ist, ist natürlich - jetzt müssen Sie alle Ihr Gehirn umstellen - das größte Kunstwerk, was es je gegeben hat …"

    there was no one word about devil...

  • this piece is a land mark in the world of electronic music! Cutting edge to say the least, to construct sounds rather than just record & manipulate them, true genius,

    true art in every sense of the word.

  • This isn't music, it's a conglomeration of sounds. I'm calling bullshit.

  • tender

  • "pretentious" is so overused, it is so disgusting and it is so useless to apply here. those who say this type of sound is pretentious are pretentious themselves, they make a big deal out of a tiny argument that has no bearing in reality.

  • I have listened to this so many times that I can sing along with it. I recommend that you do the same.

  • i cant belive that no-one can see how their arguing proves this songs greatness-how many other songs can you think of which divide opinion so much and inspire so much passion on both sides? Also, to those who say there is no skill in making such a song, have you seen the date? 1955. in 1955 the charts was plagued by formulaic 3 chord rock and blues (not all of it was bad but alot was) The sounds and effects created in this music took far more skill to make than a 3 chord song about love

  • Help me! The green persons from the space are comig...

    We have to analyse "songs" like that in musical education...

    There´s no way to do a right one >.<

  • "Junior - answer the phone. .... ANSWER THE PHONE !!!"

    "Hello?"

    "Who is it, Junior?"

    "Aliens"

  • This gives me nightmares

  • This kind of thing is for people who like cool sounds. Personally I can kind of get into it, but some people are more about chord progressions and melodies or rhythm. It isn't fair to assume that this guy is pretentious because he makes music that you think is strange. Also, telling people they don't like it because they don't understand it is a stupid assumption. Maybe they just don't like it.

  • @ShortenDavid There's a difference between insisting that people dislike Stockhausen because they don't understand him and pointing out the unfairness of judging a piece of music without giving any indication of having understood it. Not caring for a piece of music is understandable. Declaring it's meaningless without making any effort to follow it is dismissive. BTW: This music flows directly out of S's background as a rationalist serialist. It *is* about rhythm, melody and counterpoint.

  • @Fremglerk Sure. Though I think if it was about rhythm, melody or counter point, you would be able to post a video response of you dancing and singing to this song.

  • 'Preiset den Herren' - listen to the lyrics! Great, it's done in 1950's ...

  • great stuff! I never thought anything would top black veil brides, but this just about does it! gunna send this to my mate vegan terry, he'll love it

  • Halloween! Ich glaube mit richtig Glaubig.

    

  • i like it - but I am old, anxious, bothered: this is music or noise that fits into life now: amongst its interesting traits is that it doesn't prevent work: curiously, more conventional music gets in the way

  • Kind of creepy, I like it.

  • Stockhausen endorses Gatorade.

    

  • @DarkZekeX  Exactly!!!

  • I think part of the problem of presenting this work (especially on Youtube) is that the assumption is that composers like Stockhausen had contemporary digital techniques available. Yes, if somebody composed this today (just like the composition of Reich's "It's Gonna Rain" or even introduced the theremin, it would seem pretentious given the extensive scope of electronic materials available. For his time, however, this work was (and is) pure genius.

  • @EmoState1910 I don't think so. I think people think its pretentious because they don't get it, and they feel the need to attack it, and they've heard people use "pretentious" to insult art before, so they call it that, and they don't even know what it means. I don't think use of a particular technique is inherently pretentious.

  • @DarkZekeX

    Yes, those untermenschen simply cant understand the greatness that is Gesang der Junglinge

  • It's astonishing the number of people who say how pretentious this is, I suppose they really can't deal with just listening to it and admit it makes them uncomfortable.

  • I heard it's actually a picture converted to audio form, and i've seen the picture, it's really creepy...

  • @tink729 he would have needed a spectrograph i think, and i dont think they had those 50 years ago

  • @tink729 no it's not

  • Anyone know the fable about the emperor´s new clothes? Here´s a real life example.

  • @NLMF2011 No its not.

  • Beautiful sounds...

  • krank, krank, krank..!!

  • Here are only missing a voice who said "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine....."

  • @eurojammer47 i've put "Revolution 9" on this........it's perfect, now......i'm a genius!

  • its the creepiest piece of shit I actually like

  • awesome i wanna be like stockhausen when i grow up!!!

  • Hey @NewMusicXX , where can I find the original song to download?

  • These creepy screams remind me The Zone from STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. If you play first person shooter, I strongly recommend it, very dark and immersive game.

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  • this dude needs bassnectar

  • Most music is played, something interesting is heard, then the theory comes out of that. With Stockhausen the theory comes first ,so throw everything out that you know. :)

  • This is just horrible. No one could ever convince me that any skill goes into writing this random mess.

  • @atheistrocker100

    It's cool that you don't understand subtlety or artistic expression through an artistic medium lacking pre-determined rules.

    I'm just gonna have to enjoy it twice as hard for you.

  • @PantherFox ha, no i understand "subtlety or artistic expression" But i find this to be complete garbage and about as expressive as a monkey running up and down a piano. I think ill stick with Bach.

    What exactly do you think this guy is trying to express through this "music"?

  • i agree with you in this not being exactly music. But it is a valid form of expression. And it has it's merits, specially when you consider when it was written/produced. Back in 1956 this represented state of the art recording techniques. These techniques have evolved to became actual tools to aid the creation of real music in studios around the world. thatś the value i see in this.

  • @wariojulio Yes i can see what your saying. But as far as musical skill, as in chord progression, rhythm, harmonizing etc. its lacking. Though I understand it is not trying to be -so to say- traditional. Just not my kind of thing i suppose. I don't think any of his music should be defined as "genius" And i wish the musical "fashion" would go back to baroque for a little bit.