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Stockhausen on 'sounds', 1972

Excerpt from Karlheinz Stockausen's May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union on 'Four Criteria of Electronic Music'. It proved to be astonshingly priescent. If you like this, get the whole lecture from...  
 
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nothingblue1 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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christopher hitchens kinda looks like stockhausen
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BillainTV (1 month ago) Show Hide
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an infinite inspiration
macizo25 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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same here dude, but try to create new sounds... inovations is the key.
AppA (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Or layer existing sounds so they create fitting soundscapes, be it spectral or temporal.

Even though we only have roughly 20000 Hz at our disposal, sonic content is everything except limited :)
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MusicaRicercata (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I never thought I'd say this, however... SHUT THE FUCK UP.

It is the rhetoric of people like you that create a bad representation of people who enjoy modern music (and perhaps a bad representation of modern music in general). Your exceedingly narrow view is comparable with that of those who are completely intolerant of new music. Grow up.

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