Stockhausen: "Kontakte" Part 1

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.

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[stagfromTOS]

You must be new here.

[KrzysztofIwanski]

I don't care if this is art or not. I don't care if this is music or just noises. The fact is, that I like both. And for me it's brilliant. I've enjoyed it. Thank you.

[darthaeris]

Yeah, try listening to Gigyas' theme with this.

Compliments it beautifully.

[BassPianoBassPiano]

This reminds of playing Earth Bound. I love it.

[andreabubus]

In fact fuhveluh is true, my friend, and that's why this music can be considered art. Makes people discuss :)

[twongler]

Thank you for posting this. What a pioneer he was.

[twongler]

Nope, but he was v. influential. There's a lot of electronic music out there earlier than this, especially made by "automatic" instruments and magnetic tape manipulation. Some of it is a bit impenetrable, but there's a lot of interesting and imaginative stuff, too. Happy hunting!

[Keaton Chavez]

Well I see where he's coming from in the case of Aphex Twin (I shared that opinion initially, minus the that "post-African" whatever) but from what I've heard of dubstep, though I'm not very familiar with Skrillex, there isn't much repetition there.

And that's hilarious that he said that.

[TheRealLordRama]

Stockhausen said Aphex Twin was bad for being too repetitive—"post-African repetition" was his phrase. It should be easy to find a source on Google. Knowing that, it would be surprising if he found Skrillex or Burial attractive.

[TheRealLordRama]

Choke on your own blood and vomit, fucking homophobe.

[musicae100]

really interesting



[Helio graf]

it is a kind of completion of his lifes work though, electronic exploration of timbres.