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I no longer limit myself.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Age: 79 †
Born: 1928
Born: August 22
Died: 2007
Died: December 5
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
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I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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