Saturday, December 08, 2007
So Herr Stockhausen 'ist gestorben'. Or is it 'ist tot'? My only encounter with the German words for death were in using the excuse 'my ginuea pig died' as a reason for being late for school. Such is the nature of GCSE German.
(auf Deutsch) Also.
I can't say I've made any inroads into Stockhausen at all. The piece I've really been interested in getting hold of is 'mikrophonie 1' where two performers 'investigate' as one might with a microscope the inaudible sounds of a tam tam (a type of gong) and two other performers manipulate the sound. I'm intrigued by this type of team working, as those performers/composers who investigate sound as a thing in itself (and I might arrogantly include myself here) often do it alone, where as music is most fun as a collective activity. It reminds me of reading about (I think it might have been one of their contemporaries) This Heat controlling each other's effects/voulme etc. Think Radiohead have carried out similar experiments too.
Anyway. Why is it when someone dies you finally get round to looking into their work?
(auf Deutsch) Also.
I can't say I've made any inroads into Stockhausen at all. The piece I've really been interested in getting hold of is 'mikrophonie 1' where two performers 'investigate' as one might with a microscope the inaudible sounds of a tam tam (a type of gong) and two other performers manipulate the sound. I'm intrigued by this type of team working, as those performers/composers who investigate sound as a thing in itself (and I might arrogantly include myself here) often do it alone, where as music is most fun as a collective activity. It reminds me of reading about (I think it might have been one of their contemporaries) This Heat controlling each other's effects/voulme etc. Think Radiohead have carried out similar experiments too.
Anyway. Why is it when someone dies you finally get round to looking into their work?
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