Thought this might be of interest to some--
Discussion on the Analogue Heaven mailing list regarding 20th century
composer Karlheinz Stockhausen yeilded thin interesting web-site. Check it
for the whole interview.
Taken from:
http://www.stockhausen.org/ksadvice.html
"Earlier this year, Radio 3 sent a package of tapes to Karlheinz
Stockhausen.
The tapes contained music by Aphex Twin, Plasticman, Scanner and Daniel
Pemberton. Then in August, the station's reporter Dick Witts travelled to
Salzburg to meet Stockhausen and ask him for his opinion on the music of
these four "Technocrats". But first, they talked about the German composer's
own youthful experiments in electronic synthesis..."
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"Can we talk about the music we sent you? It was very good of you to listen
to it. I wonder if you could give some advice to these musicians.
I wish those musicians would not allow themselves any repetitions, and would
go faster in developing their ideas or their findings, because I don't
appreciate at all this permanent repetitive language. It is like someone who
is stuttering all the time, and can't get words out of his mouth. I think
musicians should have very concise figures and not rely on this fashionable
psychology. I don't like psychology whatsoever: using music like a drug is
stupid. One shouldn't do that : music is the product of the highest human
intelligence, and of the best senses, the listening senses and of
imagination and intuition. And as soon as it becomes just a means for
ambiance, as we say, environment, or for being used for certain purposes,
then music becomes a whore, and one should not allow that really; one should
not serve any existing demands or in particular not commercial values. That
would be terrible: that is selling out the music."
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