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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. "
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sometimes
Transformation
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" Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public. "
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" So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work. "
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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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" Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. "
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" Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. "
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" I no longer limit myself. "
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" I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. "
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" And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. "
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" I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language. "
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" It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time. "
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" And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound. "
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First
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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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" But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. "
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Since
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" Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. "
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Him
Me
Never
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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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Most
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" But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. "
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