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

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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)