Watch Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen Talk Sounds and Human Evolution
Groundbreaking composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the earliest to use electronics, gave an interesting lecture entitled “Four Criteria of Electronic Music” at the Oxford Union at Oxford University in 1972. Check out these two excerpts from the lecture where Stockhausen highlights the anatomy of electronic sound (first video) and speaks to the dehumanization of popular music within the context of human behavior and evolution (second video). No big whoop…
On sounds…
On Human Evolution…
Ok, take it easy Heinzy. The entire lecture is said to be available for mail order purchase via Stockhausen.org (.pdf catalog – yikes! So much for being progressive.)
