Karlheinz Stockhausen - KURZWELLEN (Aufnahme vom 4. Mai 1968)

PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST. You can order this music on Thank you! Kurzwellen (Short Waves), for six players with shortwave radio receivers and live electronics, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968. It is Number 25 in the catalog of the composer’s works. Aloys Kontarsky, piano; Harald Bojé, electronium; Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar, tamtam with microphone; Johannes Fritsch, viola; Karlheinz Stockhausen, sound direction. Conception Kurzwellen is one of a series of works dating from the 1960s which Stockhausen designated as “process“ compositions. These works in effect separate the “form“ from the “content“ by presenting the performers with a series of transformation signs which are to be applied to material that may vary considerably from one performance to the next. In Kurzwellen and three subsequent works (Spiral for a soloist, Pole for two, and Expo for three), this material is to be drawn spo