From C Twomey Sent Fri, Apr 30th 1999, 08:13
From C Twomey Sent Fri, Apr 30th 1999, 08:13
Ah, the generation gap. This quote shows why his students (like Holger Czukay) had more influence than the teacher, because they had a sense of ambience and minimalism. Stockhausen has too much book learning (in the McLuhan sense). CT Karlheinz Stockhausen: >I wish those musicians would not allow themselves any repetitions, and would >go faster in developing their ideas or their findings, because I don't >appreciate at all this permanent repetitive language. It is like someone who >is stuttering all the time, and can't get words out of his mouth. I think >musicians should have very concise figures and not rely on this fashionable >psychology. I don't like psychology whatsoever: using music like a drug is >stupid. One shouldn't do that : music is the product of the highest human >intelligence, and of the best senses, the listening senses and of >imagination and intuition. And as soon as it becomes just a means for >ambiance, as we say, environment, or for being used for certain purposes, >then music becomes a whore, and one should not allow that really; one should >not serve any existing demands or in particular not commercial values. That >would be terrible: that is selling out the music." >