Electronic Music 411 - RIP Stockhausen

fantastic response he has to the hipster music. It saddens me even more that he is dead and the world of music lacks one more great teacher/mentor and is stuck mostly with the market structure to guide young talent.

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12/08/07 + implexgrace

ricemutt said: "Just to prove nagrom doesn't know anything... the sound in kontakte were filtered IMPULSES not square waves. skippy stop pretending you're the shiznit cause you don't know SHEEAATT

And further:

"Nearly all the electronic sounds were produced with an impulse generator (the speed of the impulses could be varied continuously between 16 and 1/16 impulses per second, the duration of these impulses being variable between 1/10000 and 9/10 seconds). I also used a tuneable selective amplifier (used as a fairly narrow filter) with continuously variable band-width and correspondingly variable decay periods. A scaled band filter was also used. A few isolated sound events were produced by sine wave generators and a square wave generator."

google is magical isn't it. can make anyone look like they know what they're talking about even when they don't.

12/08/07 + Doron

he is an important composer for sure, i was never a big fan, and read a couple of interviews with him at some points, he seems really full of himself a dick to a certain extent, thats fine one i allowed to be a real dick, plenty of composers have earned the tile of major dickheads, many of them germans for some reason

12/08/07 + Leonid

Yet another link, Glenn Gould as one of his imaginary caracters, Karlheinz Klopweisser. A bit silly, I know

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12/08/07 + hecanjog

Fredo, def pick up Stimmung. It's one of my favorites - just a stack of pitches that the vocalists double with different syllables, so he ends up playing mostly with vocal harmonics and the textures the voice can make. For a singer I bet it'll be an especially fun listen. :-)

Stimmung trivia: Written when one of his kids was a baby, and all he could do was hum as he worked so as to not wake the baby. He got fascinated with what his voice could do and ta da...
More Stimmung trivia: Big inspiration for the spectralist crowd, so if you're into Grisey, Murail, Tenney, etc, this might be your Stockhausen entry point. Same goes for drone fans.

[ And PS cut it out youse guys, no being mean in this room. ]

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12/08/07 + djugel

Ah Leonid... anyone got a link to the other version. I wasn't into the free jazz sounds.. would love to hear tape only.

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12/09/07 + nagrom

the sound in kontakte were filtered IMPULSES not square waves. skippy stop pretending you're the shiznit cause you don't know SHEEAATT

An impulse wave and a square wave are roughly the same thing. "Impulse" is the more traditional and broader term. You could say a square wave is an 'evened-out' impulse wave. Nevertheless, 'impulse waves' are usually referred to as 'square waves' in electronic music (for instance, on synthesizers with PWM), hence my use of the term.

djugel, I wasn't aware of the instrument version. I've only heard the 4-channel tape version mixed down to stereo. Maybe I'll have to check that out!

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12/09/07 + nagrom

Leonid said: ""Advice to clever children", Stockhausen comments on the music of Aphex, Plasticman, Scanner and Daniel Pemberton:"

This article is wicked! I just read it a few days ago, coincidentally =(
I'm disappointed that Hawtin doesn't reply though.

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12/10/07 + sAMsKi

bye bye karlheinz.

i had a t-shirt made the next morning with 'R.I.P. Karlheinz' on the back. wore it around All Tomorrow's Parties. Led to some nice exchanges with some interesting people...

bye bye karlheinz.

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12/10/07 + djugel

yeah nagrom.. check it out on youtube. It's cool.. I just thought I was going crazy or something.

I would love it if someone made me the ulitimate Stockhausen comp. Secret Santa!!

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