Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes & Sayings

“It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.”

“And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.”

“And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.”

“I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.”

“But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.”

“One experiments and has to choose always the best results.”

“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.”

“Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.”

“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”

“I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.”