CXVIII. STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz (1928-2007)
Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56)
KS, electronics
Josef Protschka, voice
(13:42)
Musique concrète is a complicated subject.
The term was first used in connection with the French composer Pierre Schaeffer, who wanted to create a "symphony of noises."
Noises, sounds ... even the human voice, as in this entry ... can be electronically manipulated to produce something different than the original.
Why? you are asking fervently -- hoping this noise will just go away.
But it won't. Not in 1955, and certainly not today, when every pop star uses autotune or samples an old song and remixes it. That, too, is musique concrète!
To adjust one's ears to this type of music may be a challenge, I don't know. I've been listening to Stockhausen since I was a child, and his music and the music of Haydn are one and the same to me.
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In this case, the voice is manipulated and combined with purely electronic sounds.
The text is from the Book of Daniel.
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