"Stockhausen rarely gives interviews" ...if you search "Stockhausen interview" there's a ton of material. He was very present in the academic world and in music industry, and there are even a lot of whole lectures of his. We are not talking about Scelsi or Sorabji....but journalists always tend to exaggerate their achievements..

Stockhausen on his own legacy: "i didn't break anything... I just left it as it is. but I added a lot of new works... there is enough to study now for centuries to add this to the traditional music. (breaking eachother's work) that is respect-less and I don't like that at all." love how Stockhausen maintains in this interview!

...'No.' I miss Stockhausen

@whitex4652

2 ай бұрын

Best answer ever.

6:30 "I didn't break anything. I just left it as it is." Great comeback. And true as well.

you wasted a great opportunity to interview him.

No

It’s crazy that this KZread video got uploaded when Stockhausen was still alive. Rest In Peace You Mad Genius

This reminds me of an incident that occurred in the late 70s when I managed a high-end stereo store in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We carried the Carver Holographic preamp. A group of grad students from U of M came with a stack of records to test it. One was Stockhausen's 'Gesang der Jünglinge' on DG. In one section, the voice image moved dramatically up and down; it was so obvious that everyone noticed it. They freaked. "How the hell did he do that?" they demanded. I never figured it out.

Oh the interviewer really must have thought his questions were amazing, but in fact there was a total lack of tune between him and Stockhausen. It seems like the guy wasn't seeing or questioning Stockhausen at all, and was only able to address a distorted image that he had previously created about the composer.

@comprehensiveboy

9 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right. He was starting only from a sort of caracature of what the so called avant garde is, insisting that Stockhausen be perceived as an outsider, but he was a sincere classical composer inside the tradition.

@nikolaseros344

5 жыл бұрын

It was so lame when the reporter cut him off when he started to talk about how he related to the 2nd Viennese school. Seemed like he had a lot to say.

@whitex4652

2 ай бұрын

The interviewer is plainly a bit stupid, uneducated and uniformed.

The greatest part of this interview is the fact that you just know the interviewer spent hours, maybe days, thinking of what to ask first and expecting a nice, long answer to the most brilliant thing he could come up with, only to be shot down in flames. Hilarious.

@akashboinpally4389

10 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

Before they became famous, the Beatles played in Hamburg, Germany, for eight solid weeks in August 1960 at two or three clubs. Both Paul McCartney and John Lennon liked avant garde music. Paul looked up Stockhausen, turned John Lennon on to him. Stockhausen turned both Beatles on to electronic music. Soon everyone on the cutting edge of music was trading in their acoustical instruments for electronic pianos, bass, guitars, and saxophones. Soon Beatles music was being played by jazz musicians with electronic instruments. Stockhausen is a major influence in music and sound. He is genius.

😂and know i roll a spliff with his grandson. And we laugh and miss his grandvater. He was a kind Person. Bless

@santiagoortega5187

2 ай бұрын

Go to the kitchen b1tch

@AndreaColombo-fx1wh

21 күн бұрын

You met Simon? What's he like as a person?

After Webern my new obsession is Stockhausen. I love him!

Rest in peace. I met him when I was 17. It was such a revelation for me. First Berio, then Ligeti. Now Stockhausen. I'm very sad today.

@JohnBock-nq9lr

Ай бұрын

Check out Sun Ra

Really interesting. Thank you very much for this content!

he actually makes opera sound exciting. i'd go see it.

R.I.P. A great maestro, a real genius, we'll miss you

un genio total. El maestro stockhausen es un compositor extraordinario que ayuda con su intelecto y con su musicalidad a elaborar cada dia mas lo mas hermoso que tiene el ser humano " la musica".

If you're interested in a good interview with Stockhausen, I'd recommend his conversation with Björk, that's not so hard to find on Google (just search for 'Björk Stockhausen interview').

Very fine! I enjoyed the program!!

I like how he says "Nineteen-Hundred Fifty-One"

@schadowizationproductions6205

3 жыл бұрын

It's a normal way of saying a year in German.

Who knows what genius work he could have written with those 11 minutes

@wormswithteeth

5 жыл бұрын

His 300 pieces will do fine. Thanks :)

wonderful...thanks for sharing!

Just what is the difference between "sound design" and "sound organised in time"? Are you not playing with words? Like "interior design" and "furnitures organised in space"? "It takes a talented musician who loves what he's doing to make music." So that's Stockhausen. The fact that he composed hundreds of pieces is enough to show that he liked what he was doing.

I was waiting for Woody Allen and Marshall McLuhan to appear and tell off the interviewer.

mmlight is so right... I am a lonely math student who listens to Stockhausen, I really love his music, and I consider him a genius. I would just like to add that I have friends who study either Physics, Psychology or Law, and they share my point of view, and enjoy his music a lot too, so, not only math students, but other college students listen to him.

The last time Stockhausen saw his father (a German soldier on leave from the front) was in 1945. His father told him "I'm not coming back, take care of things." And his father was soon thereafter listed as missing in action. What a terrible burden of sorrow that entire generation had to bear.

AT the very beginning, the piece the three musicians are performing is called "Refrain", written in 1959. It was originally scored for piano, percussion and celeste, but as you can see, the celeste has been replaced by a synth using a celeste bank. Better balance of sound.

I spent a week of study with him 1986! Great.

Very interesting, great stuff.

Such a wonderful man Karlheinz was.

Stockhausen or the art to stay calm when confronted to an idiot.

That's a good point. The intellectualizing and the experiencing of the music are pretty separate. Different tastes in music give us something to talk about I guess.

Thanks!

This is great!

Stockhausen was an influence on the Beatles. Paul McCartney introduced Stockhausen’s work to the group, turning John Lennon into a fan; Lennon and Yoko Ono even sent the composer a Christmas card in 1969. He appears on the Sgt. Pepper album cover, 5th from the left in the top row, between Lenny Bruce and W.C. Fields.

Yes I agree that the ear is connected to the mind.I didn't really mean that it's possible to experience sound without intellectualising it-although I think this is indeed possible.The music we hear is always contextualised,however,and if by intellectualising we take it out of the context it becomes aurally incomprehensible. Anyway, I'm happy for you that your own ear finds this pleasing. As a music student years ago I used to pretend I liked it but now, as a middle-aged person I just come clean.

I think that is Refrain (1956) for piano, percussion, celesta) in a new version called 3x Refrain (2000) which replaces the celesta with a sampler keyboard. The performers also make some vocals during the piece. The video also edits together sections from several of other pieces.

exacto, esa es la razón por la cual no da muchas entrevistas aparentemente.

excellent point!

I feel for the interviewer. More than likely used to interviewing bands like Oasis or Coldplay, probably flung into this with short notice and no knowledge of Stockhausen's work prior.

@anonymous-cq7wj

Жыл бұрын

thank you! finally a reasonable comment

anyone know the name of the song they play in the begining ?

What song is it in the beginning. I dont know if these are songs but thats all i can think of

2:12 is excellent. Never have so few syllables caused so much fail.

La dominación de la música romántica, ¿cuándo se dejará tranquilo ese tema en la música? Un respiro, es agotador.

rest in peace!

buenisimo, muy inteligente!

When we reach the age of perhaps 12 or 13, most of us come to realise that the question "what is your favourite colour" is ridiculous, because all other colours in the spectrum are necessary to give meaning. Similarly the meanings of words in a language are formed only in opposition to other words. That's why, I think, "what is the most beautiful sound" is a fucking stupid question to ask. Certainly a self absorbed artsy fartsy thing to ask as an OPENING question!!

If this interviewer would of interviewed Mozart his first question would be ‘what’s your favorite color’?

it would have been great to know whta his answer would have been for the first question.

Stockhausen seems to be really shy and introverted in the interview... in my opinion

great stuff

There was an hour long BBC programme on Stockhausen circa 1997. Does anyone have a clip?

you're absolutely right :)

Well the major scale has its foundations in the acoustical properties of notes. The major chord can be found in the overtones to a fundamental note. Tonality as it is used to structure music is to some extent artificial because it depends on well-tempered tuning to allow modulation. For whatever reason anyway, we do feel at home in tonality. The ear likes tonality - that's why it's finding its way across the globe and why we allow ourselves to 'get used to it' (if that is the correct phrase).

This is a great interview, not sure what the fuss is about in the comments.

Very remarkable and influential person! It is a shame that he is currently omitted given the feeble number of views of his works on KZread.

@archaic9525

3 жыл бұрын

you do not listen to a Stockhausen piece with a youtube standard streaming quality

Can brought me here.

the subdominant figure is not that present in the overtones. The only way you could say so it's that the overtones go for a dominant chord (of sorts), so actually what we do have is the dominant, an unstable sound - for what are ears are used to. and what about modality?

Well, the ear is connected with the mind. I think what you mean is that it's possible to experience sound without intellectualizing it, which I think is correct. However I find Stockhausen's music to be both pleasing to the ear and stimulating to the imagination and intellect, and I think that any music can be approached in this way. It's up to the individual whether or not to "like" the way something sounds.

Oh.... He thinkgs he's an alien... that explains a lot!

Would anyone happen to know the piece at the beginning of the video?

@yuconghuang2725

6 жыл бұрын

MusicaRicercata refrain

just found on e-mule another one to be uploaded soon ...

"Computer says NO"

The interviewer is getting on my nerves.

Fuck melody. Fuck rhythm. Fuck tradition. "Noise is sound cured of its disease which is music." - composer Steven E. Streight. CONGRATULATIONS. Today this video was selected by the New Musiology blog archiving avant garde, noise, and experimental musics.

Truly preposterous interview.

What's the name of the opera mentioned?

Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22, 1928 -- December 5, 2007) I just heard :-**(

Yeah, he actually used 4 mics. Some of his earliest pieces used 5 or 4 speakers.

Stockhausen esta vivo. Y prometo encontrarle y desmentir su deceso aunque tenca que recorrer la galaxia entera. ZASCA

STOCKHAUSEN hat sehr spannende musik geschaffen, die mir gefällt.

...I'm at a total loss for words

Thank you for posting this. Someone a bit more informed and respectful would have done a better job at interviewing this important figure of modern music, though

The basic fundamental definition of music is sound organized in time... which Stockhausen does very well. Music is sound, but how can sound not be music if organized in a logical manner?

Karlheinz are you talking Siriusly?

The first question is like: what is your favorite Minecraft block? So much cringe.

@maredjurphy

4 жыл бұрын

my favorite Minecraft block is the note block

@segmentsAndCurves

2 жыл бұрын

@@maredjurphy Jazz!

@dschkn

3 ай бұрын

Ahahaahh😂😂😂 yes!

Maybe they should have had a beer with the conversation, but I don't mind it if some simple questions are asked. I have a favorite sound. Ice bergs.

Yes, I agree for the most part. I think it IS important that composers challenge us on an artistic level. I'm not disputing anyone else's right to enjoy this. I personally, however, would prefer to hear organised pitch - and probably organised via tonality. I don't mean that composers ought to be producing cheap pastiche but that music should be pleasing (in some sense) to the ear. It loses its capacity to express the whole gamut of what music through the centuries has been able to express

Yes, there indeed is. His music is not being overrated. Don't give up at the first difficulty - keep trying and you'll be able to realize the beauty of his works. Higher art is not always the most accessible.

Hard to describe the sound of ice bergs. Like a fluttering distortion. Grinding and fluttering. I love your example of beauty. The Disney crowd will take offense.

I'm so glad AFX corrected the old man about making dance music. KHS wrote seminal works like Zyklus but had no concept of modern electronic music. Apples and oranges.

Sounds like he's done a Sun Ra.

Does anyone know the name of the interviewer and the date of this interview?

the most interesting sound you have ever heard? the sound of NOOOO

What's the name of the piece at the beginning??

@karlkinono

7 жыл бұрын

MaxiScheiße III

@dannytun

6 жыл бұрын

The trio piece is 'Refrain,' from 1959.

@sebastianzaczek

5 жыл бұрын

@@karlkinono if you're just here to troll in the comments as i've seen you underneath a Lot of modern music Videos, would you maybe just consider leaving the contemporary music community?

It's one thing to push boundaries, it's another to pretend they aren't there

@archaic9525

3 жыл бұрын

this is a KHS-worthy comment, great, thx

His music is very difficult to diguest...

yes, they aren't. it is to each person to decide whether it is or it is not music. I'm saying that it's important to hear composers like stokchausen to open our minds to other elements that otherwise we wouldn't notice or other composers that we wouldn't appreciate because we feel they are way too modern e.g.: messiaen, takemitsu. It's important to hear different kinds of music even if one doesn't like it.

I recommend Polish experimental band TACUARA NOD, available on youtube

No need to apologise. Each to his/her own

amen

oh, what a waste of M. Stockhausen's time.

agreed!!!

im neither math or science or law but a musician and I like him so there

I tend to think we are "built" fairly neutral to be honest. Whilst I agree with the majority of your comment, there is evidence to suggest we are conditioned from an early age to appreciate (to a greater extent) music and tonality of our native culture. Indian people often cannot understand why we find the 1st - 5th interval pleasing, as they compose in far smaller tonal incriments. Very interesting stuff!

I predict that he will mostly be remembered in future centuries for his mention by the Beatles

@jean-francoisbrunet2031

Жыл бұрын

Not even. Or let's say, I wander how many Beatle fans know of this factoid....

sirius business.

This is the most well thought out commentary on this genera of music I've yet read. Its precisely why people like Squarepusher are the future and Stockhausen the distant past. Even Aphex Twin schooled the old man when he tried to instruct APX on how to make good dance music. Can you imagine dance music of any quality from Stockhausen??

@user-xu4xw6jm7d

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

I like the fact that KZread is displaying "Silly Job Interview" by the Monty Python as the first selected video related to the currently displayed video, right now. The other commenters did a good job at pointing at the utterly lack of competence of the interviewer.