Thursday, December 4, 2008

Karlheinz Stockhausen: sundry BBC interviews, puff pieces, and other ephemera



The link below offers the following mp3s:

"Listening to Stockhausen"

BBC3 presents a 60-minute investigation into Stockhausen's innumerable achievements, spanning the invention of the sine wave to hitting Cornelius Cardew with his Volkswagen.

BBC's "Music and Machines"

Recording from 1985 career-spanning retrospective festival.
Barry Millington says: "One concert took us briefly back to the very first purely electronic compositions, the Electronic Studies nos. 1 and 2 of 1953-4, followed by the slightly later Gesang der Junglinge, a hauntingly beautiful work which is unusual in suggesting something akin to a 'programme': the three men in the fiery furnace – a situation with which Stockhausen jokingly identified himself."

2 Dull Interviews

BBC3 "The Technocrats"

BBC3 explains the Stockhausen transitive property, by which through inventing electronic music, Karlheinz is also responsible for dance parties. Features "The Aphex Twin."

"Stockhausen at 70"

"Stockhausen Iconoclassics"

Virtually nothing of any value.

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