Zeitkratzer: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Old School

Label: Zeitkratzer Country: Germany

"This is the fourth release in the Zeitkratzer Old School series. The first three CDs, dedicated to the music of John Cage, James Tenney and Alvin Lucier have been highly-acclaimed. This new release is dedicated to the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most outstanding composers of the 20th century. After his early, super-organized compositions as "Gesang Der JÃπnglinge", "Kontakte" or "Studien 1" and "2", he conceived his "From The Seven Days" works as a precisely-organized text composition. Not one single note is written, but it is exactly defined: what kind of material the musicians should choose and how they should play it. Length, tempi, etc., are not given.

Zeitkratzer had the chance to work on this piece in Ljubljana in the Spring of 2011, and tried to develop their approach to interpret the texts as precisely as possible, in the traditional way of score-reading. As Stockhausen pointed out: "musical meditation is not sentimentality, but ultra alertness and -- in the lightest moments -- creative ecstasy." Set sail for the sun."-Zeitkratzer

"I do not want a spiritualistic session. I want music."-Karlheinz Stockhausen