Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Es" (1968)

NRK TV Stockhausen “Es“ Aus den sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days) 13. Es (It), for ensemble Introduction, explanations and performance of the piece “Es“, from “Aus den Sieben Tage“, by Karlheinz Stockhausen and his ensemble. Aus den sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days) is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as “Intuitive music“—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s). It is Work Number 26 in the composer's catalog of works. The first of the pieces to be officially premiered was Es, performed in Brussels on 15 December 1968 on a concert of the Rencontre de Musique Contemporaine, by the Stockhausen Group, joined by Michel Portal, Jean-Pierre Drouet, and Jean-François Jenny-Clark. The seven days of the title were 7–13 May 1968. Although this coincided with the beginning of the M