News & Updates — Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen, a leading figure in avant-garde "contemporary" European music, made several records that could be enjoyed by rock & free jazz & noise fans, as well as those into experiments in orchestral music, serialism and nutty orchestral ideas. While the brainiac set will go off about his theories and how they apply to academic sound art, acoustics and music, the fact is that some of his music is also appealing to street jerks like me. Whether percussion pieces, chamber works, pieces for voices, pieces for piano, musique concréte, operas or single instrument concepts, his ideas fleshed out pretty well...