Post by jetschizo on Aug 15, 2010 22:19:48 GMT -5
Dufallo: But what could be interesting about a second of time?
Stockhausen: The verticalisation of time. To compose 600 layers recorded with a six hundred channel tape machine, and then let every listener choose a combination of layers within one second. One would understand that everything which seems to be meaningless in a too dense superimposition within a second of time, can be studied carefully by listening to innumerable combinations of layers. So, one can listen again and again to the inner life of the second which will be an extraordinarily complex organism, like a human being, like a cosmos.
Dufallo: But that's really getting to a very responsible area you are going to decide a second? You know, you decide a week, you decide a day there's enough seeming space in between. But to decide a second!
Stockhausen: I will just treat the time as being vertical instead of horizontal. Because time as a horizontal concept is an illusion. Therefore I want to end up with the smallest referential time unit, which is like one heartbeat. Within this I want to have a whole universe of music which is composed more vertically than horizontally.
Dufallo: I see. It takes very quick listening!
Stockhausen: No. You can listen for hours, choosing always different combinations of layers within this second.
Dufallo: I see!
Stockhausen: The second may have 600 layers, and you combine layers as many and as often as you like.
more at
www.stockhausen.org/vibrato.html
Stockhausen: The verticalisation of time. To compose 600 layers recorded with a six hundred channel tape machine, and then let every listener choose a combination of layers within one second. One would understand that everything which seems to be meaningless in a too dense superimposition within a second of time, can be studied carefully by listening to innumerable combinations of layers. So, one can listen again and again to the inner life of the second which will be an extraordinarily complex organism, like a human being, like a cosmos.
Dufallo: But that's really getting to a very responsible area you are going to decide a second? You know, you decide a week, you decide a day there's enough seeming space in between. But to decide a second!
Stockhausen: I will just treat the time as being vertical instead of horizontal. Because time as a horizontal concept is an illusion. Therefore I want to end up with the smallest referential time unit, which is like one heartbeat. Within this I want to have a whole universe of music which is composed more vertically than horizontally.
Dufallo: I see. It takes very quick listening!
Stockhausen: No. You can listen for hours, choosing always different combinations of layers within this second.
Dufallo: I see!
Stockhausen: The second may have 600 layers, and you combine layers as many and as often as you like.
more at
www.stockhausen.org/vibrato.html