The Concept of Unity in Electronic Music

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

1962

Perspective of New Music 1(1): 39-48.

Language: English

The composer discusses the correlation of timbre, pitch, intensity and duration in the early years of electronic music. He presents examples from his work Kontakte to demonstrate his concept of unified musical time and its perceptual categories (colour, harmony and melody, metre and rhythm, dynamics, and form).