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 ;-)

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