Comments on: Karlheinz Stockhausen Dead at 79

Karlheinz Stockhausen Dead at 79

teletype1 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:41:52 -0800

RIP Karl heinz Stock hausen, 1928-2007.

By: exogenous

exogenous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:46:36 -0800

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By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:48:11 -0800

By: goethean

goethean — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:49:03 -0800

HYMNEN was Lennon's inspiration for REVOLUTION #9 on the Beatles' White Album. Ah. I've always been pretty ambivalent about that one.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:55:16 -0800

. I was fortunate enough to hear a performance of Hymnen at the SF Tape Music festival. What a harrowing experience.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:57:32 -0800

Condolences to both of his wives.

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:57:40 -0800

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:58:59 -0800

"No, but I once trod in some."

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:04:08 -0800

By: erebora

erebora — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:04:10 -0800

Dead person alert. Turn on the MeFi asshole magnet.

By: myopicman

myopicman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:04:21 -0800

Here's one of his visually intense works: the Helicopter String Quartet.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:11:43 -0800

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By: kowalski

kowalski — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:12:52 -0800

When I first glanced at this, I thought for a second someone had assassinated the key witness in a bribery scandal involving a former Canadian Prime Minister...

By: Dantien

Dantien — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:22:19 -0800

well, shit.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:24:25 -0800

By: infinitywaltz

infinitywaltz — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:29:09 -0800

Very sad. He was a huge inspiration to many, many purveyors of atonal electronic anti-music, not to mention Can and Kraftwerk. He's whooping and yibbling at angels now.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:29:32 -0800

. R.I.P., Stocky.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:33:44 -0800

In his biography he is described as relating with some satisfaction having received a letter addressed to "Stockhausen, Germany," from a crank who hated his music.

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By: StickyCarpet

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By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:42:56 -0800

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:44:01 -0800

. :( .

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:03:08 -0800

Aww.

By: nonreflectiveobject

nonreflectiveobject — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:29:44 -0800

By: SansPoint

SansPoint — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:35:41 -0800

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo...... .

By: jfuller

jfuller — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:45:50 -0800

The first ~4'50" of this single-link youtube post is The lad searches the night for his newts, a nun suit painted on some old boxes and some other bits of ersatz Karlheinz that I enjoy, both on its own merits and for its uncanny resemblance to its inspiration.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:00:11 -0800

By: Raoul de Noget

Raoul de Noget — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:19:40 -0800

This reminds me to get a subscription to Le Monde. The New York Times seems to suggest that he is only relevant because of Lennon, Zappa, and (shudder) techno. The Guardian's obit. is particularly horrible. He wrote some strange and beautiful music. He will be missed.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:24:50 -0800

Check out this page from one of his scores (Elektronische Studien II).

By: msconduct

msconduct — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:39:14 -0800

that sucks.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:41:10 -0800

He was a huge inspiration to many, many purveyors of atonal electronic anti-music, not to mention Can and Kraftwerk. Not to mention that he was the only classical composer honored on the front cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:41:56 -0800

He was pretty great, pretty damn great. I've really enjoyed a lot of his music, but there's a whole lot I haven't heard yet, and I really should check out more of it. Here's a fine performance (in someone's living room, it appears) of Stockhausen's Set Sail For The Sun. The video goes black at 1:12 (one of the players turns out the light, simple as that!) which seems poetically appropriate today.

By: ism

ism — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:46:39 -0800

as a work of art, his death pales in comparison to the genius of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:56:56 -0800

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:23:00 -0800

an amazing man.

By: rhizome23

rhizome23 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:30:43 -0800

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:08:32 -0800

I'll be tuning the shortwave under the stars in his honor tonight, then.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:49:34 -0800

By: surrendering monkey

surrendering monkey — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:52:04 -0800

I think Boulez is gonna try to top that and jump from the Eiffel Tower or sommat.

By: klausness

klausness — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:02:28 -0800

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:14:47 -0800

The only thing of his I've heard is Mantra, bits of which have been coming up when I've got the iPod set on shuffle. It's a bit obnoxious at first, but the ring modulated piano sound really grows on you.

By: SageLeVoid

SageLeVoid — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:47:12 -0800

By: hortense

hortense — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:55:27 -0800

In Friendship . …for love is stronger than death.

By: leibniz

leibniz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:31:10 -0800

I'm glad he managed to finish his giant opera Licht, and that they're going to perform it next year. That thing will be like the new ring cycle. And so what if he called sept11th a work of art?? Who gives a fuck? "Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world eternally justified"

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:48:55 -0800

On whether he said the Sept. 11th attacks were a great work of art. To spare you the suspense, he didn't actually say that. He said it was a the art-work of Satan. It was ripped out of context and mangled by a journalist. Stockhausen was a great artist. I am glad he lived as long as he did.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:50:50 -0800

Stockhausen was a great artist. I am glad he lived as long as he did. I couldn't have said it better; the world is richer for his having been in it.

By: lapolla

lapolla — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:58:32 -0800

By: Eothele

Eothele — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:09:49 -0800

By: treepour

treepour — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:43:05 -0800

. I teared up when I saw this last night. Funny how sometimes you don't realize how much someone means to you until . . . If you ever get a chance to see the Brothers Quay movie In Absentia, for which Stockhausen composed the soundtrack, you absolutely must. I was already somewhat turned on to Stockhausen when I saw that, but that sealed it for me -- a truly life-changing auditory (and visual) experience. damn. . . .

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:44:08 -0800

Oh my god, nooooooooooo !! . and . again

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:00:18 -0800

I don't really know much about his music, but the fact that some crazy bonkers german guy was out there creating the strangest things possible made me very happy indeed. You need people like that.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:42:08 -0800

I don't really know much about his music... There's some fine pieces you can hear at this Stockhausen MySpace page.