Stockhausen

I own quite a few Stockhausen albums, my favorite is "Opus 1970".

ExittheLemming wrote: Foxprog wrote: What do you think about Karl-Heinz Stockhausen's music? Makes King Crimson and VDGG feel like kid's music. I suppose he was a big influencer for Pink Floyd and Lennon/McCartney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nffOJXcJCDg No, it really doesn't make anyone's music sound like kid's music. Somewhat ironically, I've always had a soft spot for Gesang der Jünglinge  (which uses numerous sound recordings of just the one 12 year old Cologne choirboy Josef Protschka for its entire 13 minute and 14 second duration) So yeah, that really is kid's music. Kontakte ain't bad either, especially that section that sounds like a dyspeptic bumble bee coming into land

I have always been attracted to Stockhausen and dig a lot of his music. Some faves have already been mentioned but I’ll add Hymnen as well.
Stockhausen is actually a very good example of an artist that still to this day is a highly acquired taste. Yet his fingerprints are all over music history and he has furthermore sown more seeds than you can count. Hell we even have some of his students featured here on PA in Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jean Michel Jarre as well as Jon Hassell...but it’s more of a feeling or approach to music rather than a specific style that Stockhausen seemed to pass on.
With regards to PA and rock in general it lead to some very unique and per my tastes beautiful and strange musical avenues. With a pinch of The Floyd and The Softs and you effectively end up with ‘Krautrock’.
Actually much like how Terry Riley managed to sow seeds of his own in Sweden (of all places!) whilst touring in the 60s. Riley’s slow and elegantly plodding electronics echoed some of the same ideas as what Stockhausen had been doing with his own electronic experimentations, and then as the seed sprang to life we effectively got International Harvester’s Sov Gott Rose-Marie, Arkimedes Badkar’s ll, Kebnekaise’s ll as well as a whole slew of albums I’ve always, mostly tongue-in-cheek, refered to as “Scandinavian Krautrock”.

I haven’t listened to Stockhausen in a while though as his music is the kind I have to be in the mood for. This thread though spurs on an upcoming listen, that is for sure

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 06 2020 at 06:16

Love him or loathe him (and I've always liked the guy's irreverent attitude) it seems unlikely his formidable artistic legacy will remain untarnished by his post 9-11 remarks in relation to the 7 opera cycle Licht stating that the attacks were 'the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos'  The only person deserving of slaughter after that impromptu war crime against publicity was his publicist. Let's not succumb to the Law of Contagion here however as it's very important to separate the art from the artist (otherwise Wagner's magnificent oeuvre would be dismissed because of his rabid antisemitism, Eric Clapton's output would be undermined by his unapologetic racism and Donna Summer's unfettered homophobia would besmirch her otherwise 'pro love' mandate)

I’ve only listened to a little of his stuff, but Hymnen has been a frequent and favorite listen of mine for a long time.