[PD] RIP Stockhausen

beau djcypod at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 01:16:55 CET 2007


He'll be missed, but the music will live on:
http://flickr.com/photos/cypod/2094889566/


On Dec 11, 2007 5:15 AM, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
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> Siriusly though...
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> I seem to recall Newton was something of an occultist.  Einstein
> and many other scientists share beliefs in supernatural entities.
> Does that really effect the value of their work?
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> By all accounts Stockhausen was an arrogant man, which perhaps
> explains his clumbsy explanations due to unwillingness to research
> and study others.
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> But, whatever you think of the man and his ravings, the work stands
> on its merits because it confirms hypotheses and has predictive utility.
> That makes it science. Probably more so than Art imho.
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> What kinda makes him great, but also a bit sad, is what he achieved was
> in isolation, like many who fall into the cracks between the pillars
> of established thought.
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> andy
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> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:41:32 +0100
> Yvan Vander Sanden <yvan at youngmusic.org> wrote:
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> > Andy Farnell wrote:
> > > Of course he will always be remembered as an avant garde composer,
> > > but much of Stockhausens greatness is missed by artists who saw him as
> > > a pseudo-scientist and scientists who dismissed him as an artist.
> > > He was both at different times. A lack of rigor and precise voclabulary
> > > hides his contribution to psychoacoustics, he basically provided
> > > experimental support to Gabors theories, yet he is not mentioned once
> > > in critcal textbooks like McAdams and Bigand.
> > >
> > And of coruse we must not forget he came from sirius to explain us all
> > that :-)
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