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Article: EXTENDING CONTACTS: THE CONCEPT OF UNITY IN COMPUTER MUSIC.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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1. INTRODUCTION
IN 1962, Karlheinz Stockhausen's "The Concept of Unity in Electronic Music" appeared in the very first edition of Perspectives of New Music (Stockhausen 1962). In this article, Stockhausen reflects on the techniques that he had used in the electronic studio of WDR in Cologne in composing Kontakte (Stockhausen 1960). He also develops ideas about the ways in which these techniques can lead to a new, more unified approach to musical structure. The article has become well known and the extract from Kontakte with which he illustrates his ideas considered as a classic example of early tape techniques.
Since the sixties, however, technology has ...