Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.”

“And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.”

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

“In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.”

“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.”

“No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I no longer limit myself.”