Elektrokamerad hat geschrieben:nur wenige periodische Rhythmen - überhaupt wenig Elemente, die man schon kennt -
woher kommt diese geringschätzung der periodischen/afrikanischen rhythmik bei stockhausen? bei techno "grooves" kann ich das nachvollziehen, da die sich tatsächlich monoton wiederholen. aber nicht zb bei ostinato-rhythmen in der kubanischen rumba. die rhythmik ist dort ein eigener kosmos, in dem es unglaublich viel zu entdecken gibt. selbst wenn man darauf natürlich als europäer nicht tanzen kann (bitte nicht...). ich glaube, stockhausen fehlte da jede hörerfahrung.
an tanzmusik kann ich auch nichts schlechtes finden. allerdings hätte ich auch keine lust, zu monton-techno zu tanzen. die maschinelle wiederholung empfinde ich als faulheit, nicht als stilmittel. wenn das dann noch teutonisch gerade über vier zählzeiten geht um so mehr. abwechslungsreiche grooves (zb wie bei jazzanova - natürlich nicht zu verwechseln mit innovativ nach dem stockhausen-anspruch) zu programmieren wäre ja sehr viel mühe und die machen sich viele nicht. hauptsache sie verwenden analoge maschinen, bei denen angeblich jedes bumm jedes mal ein bisschen anders klingt.
"I wish those musicians would not allow themselves any repetitions, and would
go faster in developing their ideas or their findings, because I don't
appreciate at all this permanent repetitive language. It is like someone who
is stuttering all the time, and can't get words out of his mouth. I think
musicians should have very concise figures and not rely on this fashionable
psychology. I don't like psychology whatsoever: using music like a drug is
stupid. One shouldn't do that : music is the product of the highest human
intelligence, and of the best senses, the listening senses and of
imagination and intuition. And as soon as it becomes just a means for
ambiance, as we say, environment, or for being used for certain purposes,
then music becomes a whore, and one should not allow that really; one should
not serve any existing demands or in particular not commercial values. That
would be terrible: that is selling out the music.
I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be
very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic
music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then
immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look
for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat
any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a
direction in its sequence of variations.
And the other composer - musician, I don't know if they call themselves
composers...
They're sometimes called 'sound artists'...
No, 'Technocrats', you called them. He's called Plasticman, and in public,
Richie Hawtin. It starts with 30 or 40 - I don't know, I haven't counted
them - fifths in parallel, always the same perfect fifths, you see, changing
from one to the next, and then comes in hundreds of repetitions of one small
section of an African rhythm: duh-duh-dum, etc, and I think it would be
helpful if he listened to Cycle for percussion, which is only a 15 minute
long piece of mine for a percussionist, but there he will have a hell to
understand the rhythms, and I think he will get a taste for very interesting
non-metric and non-periodic rhythms. I know that he wants to have a special
effect in dancing bars, or wherever it is, on the public who like to dream
away with such repetitions, but he should be very careful, because the
public will sell him out immediately for something else, if a new kind of
musical drug is on the market. So he should be very careful and separate as
soon as possible from the belief in this kind of public."
http://www.stockhausen.org/ksadvice.html