Karlheinz Stockhausen -- "Hymnen"

[pazenlatierra]

Esta gente trabajaba cortando las cintas y pegandolas uf que trabajo!

[Phia1996]

hey.....ich bin sehr beeindruckt von stockhausen, ich such auch ein lied es ist von ihm....ich weis nur das es eine bearbeitete version von der deutschlandhymne ist wenn mir einer helfen kann dann bitte bitte melden

[iralightman]

This is the first 50 seconds of a 2 hour piece, give it time. My own feeling when I read on the front page of a newspaper that he'd died was to feel musak everywhere, everywhere, like water filling up and drowning us....

[mpopean]

Now go back to your natural state after all that "really" thinking.

[guacanagari]

El del final es el himno de Colombia, jejejeje

[tryfan69]

oh come on people this is pretentousness being rammed down your throat

[KaloManifesta]

I agree 100%. Thank you.

[boaxacotal]

Damn! I thought it said stockhausen's hymen

this is a massive disappointment

[keeskogel3291]

Damn! I thought it said Stockhausen's Hymnen and sure enough, it was Stockhausen - whatever he calls "hymns"!

[bananaliver]

If you don't respect someone's expression through sound you should go home and make your own and quit complaining.

[keeskogel3291]

This is truly a great work! The message within the ambivalent impulses of a progressive, antiformal hypertrophy is cristal clear. The colourfulness in the colourlessness expresses a seemingly paradox altruism, whereas untouched by any merely rational elements that inhibit the all-embracing mystical intention.

[bwl385]

lol that's pretty funny. the colourfulness in the colourlessness

[Punctuations]

Hymnen was the first record I ever took out, by chance, from a library. The rest is history.

[LvHernandez]

El himno nacional de Colombia, escuchen bien !!!

[IBEXRUST]

These videos are anti-Stockhausen - enemy-fodder. Hymnen lasts nearly 2 hours and listening to it in Cologne University, I almost began to believe in a God. I founded and run the Stockhausen Society and clips depress me to th point of saying 'why bother' when stuff like this destroys everything I do.

[GolumTR]

It's a promotion for a web site. Why don't you go whine there.

[DerangedRanger1]

@IBEXRUST Calm down. I don't perceive this as anti-Stockhausen. The only enemy is in your imagination. No one is going to take what Stockhausen gives to you away. I hope in the 3 years since you've posted that you have grown up a little.

[xtovarx]

one of the beatles influences

[Electronicbox]

Revolution #9

[supersporkspank]

Perhaps "Carnival of Light" as well.

[Electronicbox]

I've read that this is what directly influenced Lennon to do 'Revolution #9'. Hard to say about 'Canival Of Light' as nobody's ever heard it, it's not on ANY bootleg!

[supersporkspank]

You might be right, but so long as Paul McCartney keeps on hinting that he'll release "Carnival of Light" and then failing to follow through, we'll never know.

In 1996, Paul wanted "Carnival of Light" included on the "Anthology" compilation, but George Martin vetoed the idea.

In 2002 Paul said that he was working on an art film about the Beatles, and that "Carnival of Light" might serve as soundtrack material, but he seems to have forgotten about the film altogether.

[Electronicbox]

Yeah that's true, I've also read that McCartney publicly played it once at one of his art shows in London a while ago but that's the only time, it's starnge that it's not on a bootleg though as you can get hold of any of their other unreleased tracks, bar 'Carnival' and the long un-edited 'Helter Skelter'..

[keeskogel3291]

Or "Carnival of the Animals"...

[keeskogel3291]

Phooey phooey Keeskogel! Phooooooey! One minus! Two minus! Three, four, five, six and more! Minus', of course!

[urbania70]

and Pink Floyd. Remember the beginning of the song Wish You Were Here.. and Radio Kaos of Waters. I know Stockhausen because was master of Andrew Powell, orchestral arranger for The Alan Parsons Project (AP worked with both Beatles and Pink Floyd).

[ray25620]

You can hear the influence of Bach very clearly in this excerpt.

[SecretTheatre]

You don't 'hear' Stockhausen. You see it, with the 'eye' in your ear. Think of it as sculpted sound.

[sowhat63]

useless

[SecretTheatre]

It was never intended to have a use.

[GolumTR]

If the title is a pun on Hymn and Hymen, then it's german.

[bernardranreb]

it isn't a pun. Hymnen is German for anthems.

[GolumTR]

I meant isn't when I said "is". That makes the sentance make more sense... Thank you, my german speaking friend.

[BlueCougar]

The piece consists of a large amount of national anthems ("Hymnen"), processed and mixed together with electronic sounds and radio fragments.