Stockhausen: “This is silly. I want to get out.”
Cage: “Now now, Karlheinz. Don’t be pissy just because you didn’t get to sit up front.”
July 29, 2010, 2:28pm
"Among all aspects of knowledge, the knowledge of sound is supreme." — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Woodcuts from Der Doten dantz mit figuren (c. 1492), reproduced in Georges Kastner’s Les danses des morts (1852)
May 29, 2010, 8:48pm
A photo from the 1931 German Radio Exhibition in Berlin. The original caption reads:
“Was man auf der Berliner Rundfunk-Aussstellung sehen wird! Eine Radio-Tabakspfeife, welche das angenehme des Rauchens mit dem des Radiohörens verbindet.” (“What you’ll see at the Berlin Radio Exhibition! A radio-tobacco pipe, which combines the pleasure of smoking with that of listening to the radio.”)
Judging by the look on this fellow’s face, it seems there might be something other than tobacco in that pipe.
April 28, 2010, 3:00pm
Karlheinz Stockhausen and Theodor Adorno
From the 2009 documentary “Karlheinz Stockhausen: Musik für eine neue Welt,” directed by Norbert Busè.
April 18, 2010, 5:10pm
