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.