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December 08, 2007

Stockhausen RIP

The musician and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died today.

After a concert of his sometime around 1995, we talked about unsuspected music in the daily environment. Living next to a railway station at that time, I mentioned the distinct, suprisingly clean six note ton sequence of accelerating ICE highspeed trains.

But I never got to send him the tape I promissed and the "Concert for Five ICE Trains" will stay unwritten. Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet is a fine alternative.

Posted by b on December 8, 2007 at 18:45 UTC | Permalink

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the art of terror - the terror of art

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 8 2007 21:12 utc | 1

elegeic feelings

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 8 2007 21:42 utc | 2

because stockhausen helped us hear such songs can be sung

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 9 2007 2:19 utc | 3

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Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 9 2007 2:32 utc | 4

shipbuilding

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 9 2007 22:41 utc | 5

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