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Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge (Early Electronic Music)

1 decade 5 years 3 months 1 week ago

Karheinz Stockhausen was one of the pioneers of electronic music, inventing complex techniques that are now easily executed by anyone with a computer. This type of music was called 'Music Concrete' back in the day and involved cutting up, manipulating and restructuring individual pieces of tape to make an entire work.

This 1956 piece 'Songs of The Young' is comprised of many samples (as we call them today) of children reading a religious text.

The last few minutes of the piece are chopped off, due to youtube length restrictions.

3 Comments

8296 says...

A huge influence to many ; but in rock music he is fairly popular for influencing the krautrock movement of Germany in the early 70's such as Can, Amon Duul II and possibly most important of all, Faust.

alizarin

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A popular example of music made with tape splices was The Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite off Sgt Peppers. The Calliope music towards the end came from cutting up pieces of tape from a Calliope song throwing them up in the air and splicing them back together (so the story goes).