10 Dec
2007
10 Dec
'07
10:41 p.m.
Andy Farnell wrote:
Of course he will always be remembered as an avant garde composer, but much of Stockhausens greatness is missed by artists who saw him as a pseudo-scientist and scientists who dismissed him as an artist. He was both at different times. A lack of rigor and precise voclabulary hides his contribution to psychoacoustics, he basically provided experimental support to Gabors theories, yet he is not mentioned once in critcal textbooks like McAdams and Bigand.
And of coruse we must not forget he came from sirius to explain us all that :-)