scholarly journals Más allá de la tierra: el espacio en la obra de Karlheinz Stockhausen

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (37) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Juan Diego Martínez Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Este artículo analiza la importancia del espacio escénico en la obra del compositor Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), bien sea en su uso tradicional como lugar de exhibición y como elemento compositivo y herramienta para incentivar experiencia estéticas en sus espectadores. Desde esta optica se analizan obras emblemáticas, como Gesang der Jünglinge (1956) y Der Kleine Harlekin (1987) y otras en las que el espacio se usó de forma más innovadora como Musik für die Beethovenhalle (1989), una selección de obras mostrada en forma simultánea en esta sala de conciertos, donde el espacio fue segmentado como si se tratara de un museo de arte. Finalmente su ópera Licht, Die Sieben tage der Woche específicamente en la tercera sección Helikopter–Streichquartett (1993) pieza en la que por primera vez se usó el aire como espacio para la interpretación musical, con la ayuda de helicópteros.

scholarly journals Composer dans l’ombre de Darmstadt (1987)

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Helmut Lachenmann
Keyword(s):  
John Cage ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Dans cet article rédigé en 1987 et publié en 1996 dans le recueil de texte intitulé Musik als existentielle Erfahrung, le compositeur Helmut Lachenmann porte un regard critique et autocritique sur l’expérience des cours d’été de Darmstadt, depuis le début des années 1950 jusqu’au début des années 1980. Décennie par décennie, il dégage les divers courants et tendances qui ont marqué l’histoire de Darmstadt en explicitant les paradoxes parfois insolubles engendrés par l’attitude avant-gardiste dont les cours d’été avaient fourni le modèle autour de 1950. À chaque fois, il se réfère à des expériences vécues, faisant intervenir Luigi Nono (son professeur autour de 1960), Dieter Schnebel, John Cage ou Karlheinz Stockhausen. Partisan d’un « structuralisme dialectique », l’auteur spécifie enfin sa position — en référence au festival de Donaueschingen de 1980 et à un texte de 1982, « Affect et aspect » — par rapport à celles de Wolfgang Rihm et de Walter Zimmermann, ainsi que d’autres compositeurs ayant (ou non) tenté de théoriser leur relation à la tradition et à la subjectivité.

Spectre et série dans le Klavierstück XI de Karlheinz Stockhausen

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Rosângela Pereira De Tugny ◽  
Rosangela Pereira De Tugny
Keyword(s):  
Karlheinz Stockhausen

9/11 as Avant-Garde Art?

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1820-1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schechner
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Small Extent ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
History Of

[The attacks of 9/11 were] the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos. Minds achieving something in an act that we couldn't even dream of in music, people rehearsing like mad for 10 years, preparing fanatically for a concert, and then dying, just imagine what happened there. You have people who are that focused on a performance and then 5,000 [sic] people are dispatched to the afterlife, in a single moment. I couldn't do that. By comparison, we composers are nothing. Artists, too, sometimes try to go beyond the limits of what is feasible and conceivable, so that we wake up, so that we open ourselves to another world. … It's a crime because those involved didn't consent. They didn't come to the “concert.” That's obvious. And no one announced that they risked losing their lives. What happened in spiritual terms, the leap out of security, out of what is usually taken for granted, out of life, that sometimes happens to a small extent in art, too, otherwise art is nothing.—Karlheinz Stockhausen (“Documentation”)Stockhausen aside, how can anyone call the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers a work of art? Of what value is such a designation? What does calling the destruction of the Twin Towers a work of art assert about (performance) art, the authenticity of “what really happened,” and social morality during and after the first decade of the twenty-first century? To even begin to address these questions, I need to refer to the history of the avant-garde—because it has been avant-garde artists who for more than a century have called for the violent destruction of existing aesthetic, social, and political systems.

scholarly journals “Reminisces of a Dead World”: Neoclassical Impulses in Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Faulkenberry
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
World War ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Musical Thought ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Musical Traditions

In the years following World War II, integral serialist composers declared their intent to defy all previous musical conventions and eradicate all “rem-inisces of a dead world” from their music. Karlheinz Stockhausen was no exception, asserting his desire “to avoid everything which is familiar, generally known or reminiscent of music already composed.” However, Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge, de-spite its reputation for technical innovation, bears a strong connection to prior musical traditions. In this regard, Stockhausen resembled the neoclassical school of composers that sought to accommodate antiquated musical materials within a modern con-text.To demonstrate these similarities, I apply to Gesang a model of neoclassicism developed by Martha M. Hyde, a scholar on twentieth-century mu-sic. Hyde identifies two modes by which a neoclassi-cal piece “accommodates antiquity”: metamorphic anachronism and allegory. I argue both are present in Gesang. First, Stockhausen adopts elements of the sacred vocal tradition—including a child’s voice and antiphonal writing—and morphs them into something modern. Second, Stockhausen uses the Biblical story on which Gesang is based as an alle-gory for his own conflicted relationship with the mu-sical past. This analysis reframes Gesang’s signifi-cance and connects Stockhausen’s work to seem-ingly unrelated trends in twentieth-century musical thought.

Ghosts in the Machine: A Virtual Choral Performance as Hauntological Praxis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Clare Lesser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
New York University ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Choral Director ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Audio Mixing

An interwoven reading of the issues surrounding a performance – rehearsed and recorded remotely and hosted virtually – of Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol’s The Gauntlet: Far Away, Together, for 15 voices and electronics (given at New York University Abu Dhabi in March 2021, in which I was choral director), and Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993/2006). I examine the impact that COVID-19 had on realising this performance – which had originally been intended for a ‘live’ and fully immersive and interactive presentation – and consider how earlier models of hauntological praxis in works by Karlheinz Stockhausen have parallels with performing during the pandemic. I explore the ways in which working in isolation, with little sense of time or location, foster a sense of ‘aporia’ or perplexity, overturning the binary opposition of time and space, and how the use of the SPAT immersive audio mixing tool to electronically process single voices into multiple, spatially realised echoes (ghosts) of themselves, truly gives us ‘ghosts’ in the machine.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

2018 ◽  
pp. 493-494
Author(s):  
Brian Ferneyhough
Keyword(s):  
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Re-Imagining Westphalia

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-198
Author(s):  
M.I. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Miles Davis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sound Transformation ◽  
The Cold War

Chapter 5 focuses on a work from Karlheinz Stockhausen entitled Hymnen (Anthems). Stockhausen’s influence on the electronic music avant-garde, in classical and popular music domains, on those from his native Germany to the UK, the US, and elsewhere, is legendary. The techniques Stockhausen was refining were also being put to work by the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Frank Zappa, to name a few. Working with national anthems that are sampled and transformed, Hymnen is a landmark work that I argue is as much about “remembering” as it is a research-based experiment in the early years of electronic and acoustic sound transformation. This work, completed during 1960s, evokes the cold war years where space exploration, civil rights, and nuclear (dis)armament standoffs between the communist East and the capitalist West predominated. It is also the decade of Woodstock, political assassinations, civil rights, and antiwar movements in the US and around the world. Hymnen still has a lot to offer for contemporary explorations into the geopolitics of any music-politics nexus.

Serialism

Artful Noise ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Thomas Siwe
Keyword(s):  
Arnold Schoenberg ◽  
Anton Webern ◽  
Point System ◽  
Tonal Music ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
Compositional Approach ◽  
Alberto Ginastera ◽  
Percussion Instruments ◽  
German Composer

In the 1950s and 1960s, many composers, influenced by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, embraced serial compositional techniques. Tonal music became atonal and composers, such as Pierre Boulez from France and the German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, championed this new compositional approach. This chapter defines serialism and how composers applied it to works for percussion instruments. Music examples include Stockhausen’s solo work, Zyklus, with its totally original notational system, and a setting of an E. E. Cummings poem, Circles, by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. American composer Charles Wuorinen’s use of Milton Babbitt’s “time point” system in both his solo work Janissary Music and his forty-five-minute Percussion Symphony is presented, as is the work of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who contributed to the literature one of the twentieth century’s largest percussion works, Cantata para América Mágica, for dramatic soprano and fifty-three percussion instruments. A discussion of percussion solo and ensemble works by the Greek composer, architect, and mathematician Iannis Xenakis completes the chapter.

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