Karlheinz Stockhausen

...and altered sounds achieved by altering the playback speed of the tapes. Inspired by avant-garde composers such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Beatles included heavy use of tape loops on Revolver (Spitz, 2005). Utilizing new...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Few have taken the prerogative aspect of composition as seriously as Karlheinz Stockhausen. In composing his formidable "Mantra,'' in 1970, Stockhausen said he felt as if it paralleled the...

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...countrified waltz) with Aimard. Each dance bled imperceptibly into a piece from the intriguing and charming little 'Zodiac' cycle by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Then came a clutch of piano etudes, and ten vivid, obstreperous, grotesque...

In this article: Anton Webern and Gyorgy Ligeti

...playing as his original works, having debuted many works on the piano and other instruments for John Cage, La Monte Young, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, and more. Hence, Tudor's creative "style" was as much a performance technique as...

In this article: David Tudor, Buchla, Simon Reynolds, La Monte Young, Morton Feldman, Morton Subotnick, and Brian Eno

...virtuosic wordplay and histrionic gestures of Barry Guy's brilliant Un Coup de Des - though it clearly owes a lot to Berio's Sinfonia and Stockhausen's Stimmung. But for me the concert's expressive highlight was the Arditti's stunning playing...

In this article: Wigmore Hall, London, Carlo Gesualdo, Paul Celan, and Simon Bainbridge

...degree, postgraduate study. In the late Sixties came another epiphany, this time from the long-haired, mystical figure of Karlheinz Stockhausen. "To someone brought up on Stanford and Vaughan Williams, discovering Stockhausen was a very...

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...To Modern Music In its 27 years, the London-based music magazine The Wire-whose function has been to treat German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, astral-jazz shaman Sun Ra, and dubstep pioneer Kode9 as pop stars-has found an enviable niche...

In this article: The Wire, Sun Ra, Derek Bailey, London, Edwin Pouncey, and Stewart Lee

...piece is spectacularly difficult, but Marc-Andre just ate it up. ' One of very few composers to have studied with both Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, Volans flourished, especially under Stockhausen, but moved away from his brand...

In this article: Kevin Volans, Africa, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Wigmore Hall, Johannesburg, Lamborghini, and Rachmaninov

...a tradition of connecting modern electronic music with its elder statesmen. Previous pioneers-in-attendance have been Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Henry, both given the chance to oversee major retrospectives of their work. This...

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...model"), though it came preceded by a staunch, even truculent, program note in defense of such "unlistenable" masters as Boulez and Stockhausen, proved entirely winning. However rigorous the constructive principles may have been, a...

In this article: John Harbison, Viola, San Francisco Chronicle, Richard Strauss, and Morton Feldman