Karlheinz Stockhausen, the avant-garde master of electronic music, passed away yesterday..... Alex Ross in his great book "The Rest is Noise" summed up Stockhausen best:
"At his greatest, Stockhausen released sounds of mind-opening and mind-bending power. Exerting an influence that extended from the recondite circles of the postwar avant-garde to the songs of the Beatles and Björk, he was, for all his bewildering eccentricities, a giant of late-twentieth-century music.
Here are two links that give a sense of this eccentric, brilliant man's work.
The first shows an experimental spherical concert hall that Stockhausen designed for the 1970 World Expo.
This link is to a recording of Stockhausen's seminal work Gesang der Junglinge ("Song of the Youths"), a dramatic and otherworldly piece for magnetic tape and five loudspeakers, combining recordings of electronic sounds with recordings of text fragments drawn from the Bible's Book of Daniel and sung by a boy soprano. Hailed by many as the first masterpiece of electronic music, this thirteen-minute-long composition received its world premiere in the large auditorium of Cologne's West German Radio on May 30, 1956
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