[PD] RIP Stockhausen

[Tim Boykett]

and even on flickr he is hard to focus on - is that art or science?

or is he simply between the layers of focus? neither nearfield
nor infinitely distant.

only time (or periods, or phases, or whatever term he would be using)
will tell.

tm

On 11/12/2007, at 1:16 AM, beau wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> Siriusly though...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> By all accounts Stockhausen was an arrogant man, which perhaps
>> explains his clumbsy explanations due to unwillingness to research
>> and study others.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> andy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:41:32 +0100
>> Yvan Vander Sanden <yvan at youngmusic.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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