Stockhausen: "Ylem" 1/3

[guitarphunk]

Your statement: "Music is NOT a competition", is so TRUE and I wish more people understood this fact. Thank you!

[NevinJarek]

Its weird, because you could end with something like this, musically, when you follow a large number of literary interpretations and designs. Should we really think of the expanding cosmos or rotting apples that fell of the tree and roll downhill? Each apple becomes house to unique insects and the apples returns to the tree inside these insects. I'll think of the second one and I dont think I'll enjoy this any less than all those who picture marbles in space time continuum.

[FenderRhodesService]

By the way , the CD has 2 different versions , so I alternate between those 2 when I am in the Stocky-month of an earthly year.

[FenderRhodesService]

I regard this CD as sort of a twelve tone Darmstadt-jazz , a nice complement to Punkte , Trans , Inori , Gruppen Carre etcetera. I like Stockhausen but also don't forget to check his pupil Claude Vivier.

[milkfed1986]

anyone know who is performing?

[paulinestockhausen]

hmmmm am i related?

[JorPove]

El Ylem ( Hylem) o Huevo Cosmico es una propuesta del abate- astronomo jesuita Georges Lemaitre, belga,que postula la aparicion del Universo de la Nada,tal y como se plantea en Genesis. Al inicio Einstein rehusa hacerle caso,pero termina aceptando la propuesta que hoy dia constituye el Modelo Standard del inicio del Universo. Llamar al modelo Teoria del Big Bang fue una propuesta del ingles Hoyle en burla al concepto original de Lemaitre. Stockhausen rememora aqui el modelo cosmologico.

[jaynogg]

Stockhausen is far greater than Boulez or Ligeti! Such an extraordinary imagination, always reinventing himself, and practically touching on every conceivable musical parameter, a beethovenian achievement! He even gives contemporary music kudos, ridding it of its geeky and academic reputation!

[CurtisMateer]

A piece such as this makes me reconsider my view that Stockhausen wasn't the best at Darmastadt as quite a few claim, Boulez and Ligeti being better...but what a piece! No wonder Ligeti had such admiration for his work.

[Justino111]

When people say something like "the best composer at Darmstadt" or some other nonsensical comparison, that's because they have spent too much time at school parroting other people's academic emptiness.

Music is NOT a competition. There is no way one can compare Ligeti with Stockhausen. Both composers were seminal artists. And I agree, "Ylem" is fantastic piece.

[CurtisMateer]

Good point! I didn't pass any music courses at uni though, majored in literature and art history instead and was only being little bit flippant.

[Justino111]

i see you just wrote me this reply. I was not criticizing you, just want to make that clear. The worst thing is exactly that you wrote about Darmstadt: people not only need to compare composers, but more often than not they completely miss the point. I do listen to Ligeti much more often than Stockhausen. But I would never suggest that one was better than the other. Usually these artists complement themselves and they are all part of a big spectrum of creative energy.

[nebula32]

wow never heard this one before. Thanks for this.

[herma57]

thanks so much never heard this, sounds like the Seventies very much that free improv, although this is written out;