jan asked :
1.: did you hear COMPLETELY what he said at this press conference? you didn't, i presume.
fyi : i haven't "heard" him say it , but i actually read THE_WHOLE_TRANSCRIPTION of that specific press conference on his own website - http://www.stockhausen.org - !!! based on that , i've built my opinion about it !!!
2.: nine-eleven provoked a waterfall of crappy statements all over the world, and the one by Stockhausen is not the most awful i've heard. and if everyone is given the boot who talked rubbish in this connection, there would be nearly no one left to talk with.
sure , but the way he "admires" the endurance of the terrorists is ... erm ... a lil' bit "too strange" to be called sane anymore ... imho , of course !!! btw : i DON'T hate him for what he's said , as there certainly is some truth in it as well , but i highly doubt that he's a mentally sane person ... albeit he's still "a great artists" in its own kind , like van gogh & others were too !!! *sly_grin* ;-)
i know that good old Sala never got it completely,
hm ... what do u mean exactly with "never got it completely" , jan ??? *slightly_puzzled_look* :-o the instrument , the music , the sound ... ???
but you have to know Stockhausen's serialistic concept in developing sounds to understand that the mixture trautonium would have been not too useful for that.
maybe u are right , but as far as i know , it has sadly NEVER been tested , so it will surely remain "an unanswered myth of musical history" ... now that "the maestro" ( oskar sala ) is dead !!! *sigh* :-o however ... many greetinx , oh jay ;-) *~\^/~*