Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Also nutters ;-)
Let's not forget that comment was withing a whole lot of nonsense about,
of all things, archangels.
Not that I don't greatly admire KS for his music, but I don't see why his 
expertise in that field makes his personal vision of the universe 
newsworthy.

andy butler
 

Stephen Goodman wrote:
> Academic types often make boners like that, though.  It comes from not 
> having too much contact with the actual world, mostly.
> 
> From: "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>
>> I donīt know Luca,i was actually a bit shocked when i
>> heard his statement in the german news,now reading
>> more about it,it seems that what he said was a bit
>> exagerated but then again thats the job of the
>> media.What bothers me about such event being compared
>> to art coming from such an artist is that great art is
>> beyond reality for the most part,but this event was.
>> Nothing to do with his music offcourse,and no doubt of
>> his genious,just a statement that can be easily
>> misinterpreted.
>> Luis
>>
>>
>> --- Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Luis,
>>> I think you have been putting this sentence in a
>>> dangerous way.
>>>
>>> Stockhausen was indeed very conceptual and ironic
>>> when he said that and
>>> he payed a lot for this.
>>> His mistake was not having create the right context
>>> in which this
>>> sentence could have had the right interpretation.
>>>
>>> Most of the information world took this yummy chance
>>> to denounce a big
>>> offense to the disaster that had been happening on
>>> 9/11.
>>> But this has shown once again how the provocative
>>> sentence by S. could
>>> have some meaning.
>>> Just watch the latest directions that sculpture and
>>> most of the visual
>>> art has taken and you will notice that the twin
>>> towers attack is using
>>> the same violent language form that is inside many
>>> offensive
>>> "conceptual" work of art. The difference is in being
>>> real or a fiction.
>>>
>>> The problem stays in the in the value of the concept
>>> over the value of
>>> human sensitivity.
>>> Most of the art celebrated during the latest years
>>> is a work of violence
>>> towards our sensitivity.
>>> Most of the information is using violence as an
>>> opportunity to get a
>>> massive audience.
>>> So here come students that kill to be famous and
>>> artists who sectionate
>>> a cow to be hyperrealists.
>>>
>>> Stockhausen's sentence brought its result showing
>>> the truth on the
>>> surface of how people want to understand what they
>>> would like to listen to.
>>>
>>> It would have been safer for me to tell you this in
>>> italian, to be sure
>>> that there could be no misunderstandings.
>>>
>>> Anyway, we are the post Karlheinz Stockhausen era.
>>> I think that he was the last of the most
>>> revolutionary composers.
>>>
>>> This means we are no more in the post-modern era.
>>>
>>> Now it's you.
>>>
>>> Luca
>>> www.unguitar.com
>>>
>>> Jeff Shirkey wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Dec 8, 2007, at 3:06 AM, L.A. Angulo wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I saw one the last interviews he gave yesterday
>>> and he
>>> >> said the 9/11 incident is one fo the most
>>> impressive
>>> >> form of art hes ever seen...
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > By "9/11 incident" did he mean the act of terror
>>> itself? And, if so,
>>> > he called that "art"?
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>> >
>>> >
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
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