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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was a highly influential German composer known for his pioneering work in electronic music, controlled chance serial composition, and music spatialization. He composed seminal electronic works like Gesang der Jünglinge and Hymnen that were among the first masterpieces of the genre. Stockhausen was widely seen as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and a visionary who transformed modern music.

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Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was a highly influential German composer known for his pioneering work in electronic music, controlled chance serial composition, and music spatialization. He composed seminal electronic works like Gesang der Jünglinge and Hymnen that were among the first masterpieces of the genre. Stockhausen was widely seen as one of the most important composers of the 20th century and a visionary who transformed modern music.

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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

1928-2007

Stockhausen

German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most


important, but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st
centuries

Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century


music"
Stockhausen

He is known for his groundbreaking work in


electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in
serial composition, and musical spatialization.

Stockhausen
Hymnen (1966-67) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyx0I8_kTAQ

One of the finest 



examples of formal tape 

music from the 1960’s

113 minutes long - four album sides


when first released on record

Gesang der Jünglinge (1955–56)

Song of the Youths

Routinely described as 

"the first masterpiece of 

electronic music”

Seamlessly integrates 

electronic sounds with the 

human voice by means of matching voice
resonances with pitch and creating
sounds of phonemes electronically.

The vocal parts were supplied by 12-year-


old Josef Protschka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGIiBfWI0E
Scores

Scores
Scores

Scores
Aphex Twin

Richard David James 



(born 18 August 1971), 

best known by his stage name Aphex Twin

British electronic musician and composer.

He has been described by The Guardian as "the


most inventive and influential figure in
contemporary electronic music"

Aphex Twin's album Selected Ambient Works


85-92 was called the best album of the 1990s by
FACT Magazine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk

Plastikman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsct-e-HVE0

Richard "Richie" Hawtin 



(born June 4, 1970) is an 

English-born Canadian 

electronic musician and 

DJ who was an influential part of
Detroit techno's second wave of
artists in the early 1990s

A leading exponent of minimal


techno since the mid-1990s.
Scanner

Robin Rimbaud (born 1964) 



is an electronic musician who 

works under the name Scanner due to his use of
cell phone and police scanners in live
performance.

He borrowed his stage name from the device he


used in his early recordings, picking up
indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in
the airwaves and using them as an instrument in
his compositions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6wXtULM0

Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton (born 1977) 



is an English Ivor Novello 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZMdpdsaQg

winning and multi BAFTA 



nominated composer.

Now doing film and TV scores

In 1994 he released an album of


electronic music he recorded in 

his bedroom…
Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen has arguably 



done more to transform 20th- and 

21st-century music than any other 

single composer: from serialism to electronic music,
from consciousness-expanding musical happenings
to cycles of pieces for every day of the week and
every hour of the day, from a musical mantra to
some hallucinogenic Cosmic Pulses. (from The
Guardian)

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