Comments on: Electronic Music Pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen Is Dead http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/12/08/karlheinz-stockhausen-dead-at/ Electronic music news, synthesizers, reviews and more! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: synthhead http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/12/08/karlheinz-stockhausen-dead-at/#comment-123696 synthhead Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:26:24 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/12/08/karlheinz-stockhausen-dead-at/#comment-123696 Dwight Thanks for the great comments. Stockhausen has been someone any classical musician studied for over thirty years, and I'm sure musicians will be studying and performing his work for hundreds more. He's also someone, like the musicians you mentioned, that wasn't afraid to shift gears and change, even if it alienated his audience. Dwight

Thanks for the great comments. Stockhausen has been someone any classical musician studied for over thirty years, and I’m sure musicians will be studying and performing his work for hundreds more.

He’s also someone, like the musicians you mentioned, that wasn’t afraid to shift gears and change, even if it alienated his audience.

]]> By: Dwight Loop http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/12/08/karlheinz-stockhausen-dead-at/#comment-123691 Dwight Loop Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:12:12 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/12/08/karlheinz-stockhausen-dead-at/#comment-123691 As a host of a radio program "Earwaves" which for over 20 years played the music of Stockhausen I am saddened by his death...not only for his music, but for his courage in speaking out against injustice (note his comment after 9.11.2001 which brought him much criticism but much praise from those in the know...."9.11 was the greatest theatrical event in history" Karlheinz said (paraphrasing) in response to what he thought). His music was truly revolutionary, a composer who worked with audio recording tape, way before synthesizers and computers...and who made unrelenting, experimental music that seemed way beyond most normal human comprehension and understanding. Amazing who has passed on ...we have lost so many great ones....MIles Davis, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Sun Ra...all great innovators in their respective fields in the past ten years... Great statement from his foundation. Thank you for keeping Karlheinz's music alive for all time! As a host of a radio program “Earwaves” which for over 20 years played the music of Stockhausen I am saddened by his death…not only for his music, but for his courage in speaking out against injustice (note his comment after 9.11.2001 which brought him much criticism but much praise from those in the know….”9.11 was the greatest theatrical event in history” Karlheinz said (paraphrasing) in response to what he thought).

His music was truly revolutionary, a composer who worked with audio recording tape, way before synthesizers and computers…and who made unrelenting, experimental music that seemed way beyond most normal human comprehension and understanding.

Amazing who has passed on …we have lost so many great ones….MIles Davis, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Sun Ra…all great innovators in their respective fields in the past ten years…

Great statement from his foundation. Thank you for keeping Karlheinz’s music alive for all time!

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