----- Original Message ----- From: "Lord Ruthven" <dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de>
depends! if you are looking for something you know already, then Stockhausen is no good destination to travel. but if you are interested to to take a trip through uncharted musical landscapes, then even the oldest Stockhausen recordings are still an adventure.
So what's the kind of enjoyment to be had from listening to things like Stockhausen? For me, music is about aural pleasure (however you define that), but I assume you need to have a different mindset to get anything out of something like "Gruppen". Is it a sort of intellectual enjoyment or what would you say the reward is when listening to it? It's not exactly like the hairs on the back of your neck are going to stand on end, is it? :)
the effort. and, btw, *comparisons* between Kraftwerk and Stockhausen are ridiculous. it's like comparing the Beatles with Brahms.
Agreed. Just as comparisons between Stockhausen and techno/electronica what have you are ridiculous. Erik BTW, Varese's "Poème electronique" is a very fine piece of classical electronica.