Stockhausen is dead

[Jim Carr]

For those of a certain age, you should know that Karlheinz Stockhausen has just died, age 79. As one of the founders/creators of electronic music, his influence extends deeply into all contemporary music.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...ce8we20_x3IJpg

As a bassist and composer, I admit I was very much changed by his early electronic and piano works.

Yes, I am off topic here...yet Stockhausen was such an important (and often repellant) figure for my generation, I thought that the word ought to be heard here.

And yes again, I know of his sickening remarks about 911 being "Art." It was not the first time he showed he indeed was a megalomaniac.

Nonetheless, Stockhausen DID make his mark on contemporary music in a way that changed recording, sound, editing, effects, etc. by raising these things to the level of compositional elements.

Hasn't this affected us all as bassists?
Oh! I always loved those early Klavierstüke (piano pieces)!

[cdef]

You had to doubt his sanity in later years, but there's no denying his techniques had a great and indelible influence on music, even rock. In the late 1960's you could already hear him both in Zappa's tape collages and the Beatles' more experimental things.

[Jim Carr]

Originally Posted by lmoh

You had to doubt his sanity in later years, but there's no denying his techniques had a great and indelible influence on music, even rock. In the late 1960's you could already hear him both in Zappa's tape collages and the Beatles' more experimental things.

+1

Most certainly. "Tomorrow Never Knows," for example, or large "chunks" of FZ's "Lumpy Gravy" (with nods to Varese).

[Otso]

He isn't dead, he just went back to Sirius.

[avid]

A friend of mine, a Ph.D. concert pianist, was a composing student of Stockhausen. I am sure my friend is devastated. I wanted to contact him as soon as I saw the report yesterday; but I wasn't sure if I wanted to be the one to break the news.