Karlheinz Stockhause was born in the Burg Mödrath, the so-called “castle” of the village of Mödrathwas. He was a German musician and the pioneer in to experiment in electronic music and electronic sounds from the 50’s.
He explored with many sources of sounds to produce a unique style where the music electronic was not conceived as music in that decades.
A critic calls him “one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music” for its way to treated the sounds.
Basically, his experiments consisted in to manipulate human voices, sampling from recorded tapes and mixing with another sources of sounds.
Despite to be a composer not very known, actually his art and legacy have been very important in the contemporary electronic music, because he showed us a new way to compose music with transcendent abstraction.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a visionary artist, because he was a great pioneer to do new sound exploring with musical textures where we are the voyagers.
His music was known as “electroacustic music”. There was another style of music production in France that was called “Concrete Music”.
How to hear the electroacustic music?
If we want to feel the sense of that music, we should not compare electroacustic music with the music that normally we hear.
In any style of music, we have compasses that produces rhythms depending of its style. In electroacustic music we have sounds, voices, textures, noises, atmospheres, waves of sounds that produce us feelings where we can feel fear, desolation, desperation.
Have you heard music with helicopters sounds?
Karlheinz Stockhausen composed sounds and music with helicopters sounds.
Our sense of audition tells us that they are noises, but from the art of Stockhausen they are only sounds, and that sounds can produce music.
