Karlheinz Stockhausen , Father of Electronic Music?
“He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having been called the father of electronic music.” — Wikipedia
Before we call someone “the father” of a genre, it’s worth asking, what does father really mean?
In the Oxford Dictionary, it goes like this:
“A person, esp. a ruler or superior, who provides protecting care like that of a father; a person who shows paternal kindness, or to whom filial reverence and obedience are due.”
Did he provide those qualities for electronic music?
After reading Stockhausen on Music compiled by Robin Maconie, I believe he did. His lectures are astonishing, ideas far ahead of their time. Even now, decades later, many of his concepts remain unexplored. It feels as if he’s still ahead of us.
Caution: Once you begin reading this post, let go of the barriers society or peers have placed on you. Let your own mind be the master.
The best way I can serve electronic music is by collecting and sharing Stockhausen’s work not to explain him, but to listen, learn, and help others discover his ideas.
While searching for Stockhausen on Google, I noticed one of my own Facebook posts appear under the short videos section...
This might be the most mind-expanding 12 hours and 51 minutes you’ll ever spend exploring electronic music.
Lectures given by Stockhausen in 1972.playlist link
📘 Stockhausen on Music – Read on Internet Archive
I hope this post helps you step into Stockhausen’s universe...
Extra interviews & articles you can read Q: When did you realize the future of music lay in electronic sounds?
A. 1953. I was working in the studio for Musique Concrete in Paris in 1952, when I was studying with Olivier Messian in Paris, at the age of 23.
2. Article from Sound On Sound, May 1992
In 1953 on a Köln radio programme Stockhausen made the statement which would change the history of music for all time: "I want to invent new music, for I believe I have something new to say... I am not looking for the new at any price. The price I pay is the old style."
3. Björk about other people : Karlheinz Stockhausen
As a philosopher, he’s just a top person for the century. I agree more with him as a philosopher than with any other person. There are a lot of books that are on interviews he did and also collections of his lectures. It’s not like I was sort of learning about Jean-Paul Sartre and able to discuss his theories backwards and forwards, it’s just he had a certain view. Certain people have a view on things and they’re called phílosophers, I suppose. - björk
4. Article from 120 Years of Electronic Music
The pioneering work of previous composers has been somewhat overshadowed by the arrival of Karlheinz Stockhausen at WDR (who succeeded Eimert as director in 1962) in 1953 with pieces such as ‘Gesang der Junglinge‘ and Kontakte (1960) and Hymnen (1967) which became landmark works within the electronic music oeuvre.
5.Björk meets Stockhausen
Björk - I have a problem: music affects me a lot. I panic because I feel I don't have time to do everything. Does this worry you, sir?
Stockhausen - Yes and no. I've learned that even my earliest works, made 46 years ago, are still not understood by most people. So, it's a natural process...
6. Karlheinz stockhausen interviewed by Janet Henshaw Danielson
7. Music: A Revolution in a Whisper by Christopher Porterfield (November 5, 1979)
Radical method, so little acknowledged during Webern’s lifetime, was eagerly embraced by the generation that came after him, the generation of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
I will keep updating this untill....
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