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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. "
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Musicians
First
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" It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language. "
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" But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound. "
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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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" Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. "
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