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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work – I don’t like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And I’ll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I’ve never worked with him.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

– Karlheinz Stockhausen

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