Karlheinz Stockhausen News

Friday, 10 July 2009, 3:32 pm Press Release: NZ School of Music Rarely performed musical work showcased by returning musician Wellington music lovers are in for a treat when highly-acclaimed musical duo Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer perform the rarely heard Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra for two pianos and electronics at the Hunter Council Chamber ...

Kyle Gann points out that Robert Carl's book on In C is out. From the first sentence in the Amazon description of the book: Unquestionably the founding work of minimalism in musical composition... I'm certainly no musicologist, even if Four Musical Minimalists is my favorite music book.

Members of the Respect Sextet discuss their new album, Sirius Respect , where they explore the music of composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Sun Ra.

Also known as tone clusters, cluster chords usually consist of at least three consecutive tones in a scale, played simultaneously.

The classic electronic soundworlds of Stockhausen are revived and remixed by one of the late master's most celebrated students Holger Czukay: the magician at his mixing desk Recently in this magazine, Holger Czukay recalled attending the first performance, in Bremen in 1968, of Kurzwellen , Karlheinz Stockhausen's work for piano, electronium , ...

Using shortwave radios to pull sounds out of the ether has been a longstanding tradition in experimental music.

Toss aside any preconceived notions you may have about the concert-going experience if you venture out to hear Dan Deacon at Higher Ground on May 12.

Allan Von Schenkel and Kristen Williams perform 13 brief lyrical works for double bass and piano written especially for them by American composers.

When I was a schoolboy in the early 1950s, there was a new-music programme on Radio Cologne where they transmitted serial and electronic music, jazz - any compositions that were adventurous.

Concert 1: Works by Virko Baley; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; Fifth Street School auditorium, 401 S. Fourth St.

My old kitty, name of Karlheinz Stockhausen, liked to climb up on my shoulder like that.

Alan Pierson, conductor and artistic director of the new-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, was not thinking small when he conceived a piece called 1969.

After arriving in the Gartenhotel in Winterthur, he made sarcastic comments in the bar about Haldengut beer, the only brand available, and slept "rather badly" from 12:30 to 8:30 a.m. That morning, he took - as ...

We're playing at the Red Room tonight, opening for Pamplemousse . The show includes original music for tuba and theremin , Robert Ashley and Stockhausen, and one of the members of the ensemble will be a visual ...

First, the recording was stopped and restarted several times; then pieces of rubber were put under the stool legs; finally, different sorts of mat were procured and put under the stool.

361 880, lent by Pianohaus Jecklin, Zurich. The piano had a definitely hard touch, its dynamics were balanced throughout the entire range and the resonance time was comparatively short, particularly in the ...

Liner Notes -- 1. Klavierstuck I [2'56"] Aloys Kontarsky, Piano KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: KLAVIERSTUCKE I-XI - MIKROPHONIE I & II The following texts by the composer accompanied the original long-play recording.

All works have been published by UNIVERSAL EDITION, Vienna-Zurich-London. Writings : TEXTE, Vol.

The Arditti Quartet looms large in the world of new music. The ensemble is most famous for having performed the 1995 premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Helicopter Quartet," a piece that requires the four ...

Composition Seminar Karlheinz Stockhausen ENSEMBLE For a player and tape or short wave transmitter.