"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."

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"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."

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Explore more quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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"Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him."

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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."

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"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."

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"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."

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"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."

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"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing."

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"But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore."

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"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."

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