44 Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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.

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

But 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.

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.