Stockhausen: "Kontakte" Part 2

Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Kontakte" (electronic music) (1959 - 1960)
This work exists in two forms: a completely electronic version (heard here), and a second version for electronic sounds, piano and percussion.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• avant
• garde
• twelve
• tone
• serial

[FrizzyWoolWoman]

i'm so glad i found this and it's not passive atmospheric bull. this is really really great

[KentNymann]

Fantastic pioneer work!!!

[gustard33]

Stockhausen - I'm impressed.

[dradjalem]

great hearing stockhausen . edgard varese is a legend composer too :) .

[Manwithcam]

@TheSmack77 From extraterrestrials. Thus the 'contact' of the title.

[guitarphunk]

This was happening when I was a kid...why didn't anybody tell me about this?! I love this composition!

[emmetwebster]

This shits COSMIC!!

[vstman]

The speaker that you see on the picture is a very primitive version of a leslie effect. He placed the microphones at a 90 degree intervals, played the sound through the speaker into the microphones which recorded it. The tube is in place to minimize the speaker spread of the sound. Truly amazing what this genius could do with such primitive techniques!

[georgiamayjay]

I just listened to this with Jaws III on mute.

haha!

amazing

[StichtingOrkater]

Does this also appear on CD3 of Elektronische Musik 1952-1960?

[braveheart792]

I listen to this while I study Calculus, I swear it increases my grade :]

[TheSmack77]

whree on earth did he ge tthe idea fo rhis works from ? im familair with his traumatised war experiences but Kontakte (+ perhaps like much of Ligeti's work is just so otherworldly - truly original + so far ahead of anybody else. staggering really..