Did it move for you - Stockhausen?

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Karlheinz Stockhausen at Billingsgate Market. From where I was sitting (left, front of stage, next to Chris and Cosey) I got very little of all that complex sound staging which the old boy was talking about. Was there anyone else near the centre of the room that made sense of it?

Have to say I was mightly impressed with 'Tuesday' even if my attention wandered from time to time. It was nice to see the Frieze Art jerks getting pissed off and leaving before it started. I could have throttled the idiots in front of me.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Monday, 24 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Hmm... that died a death. For all you pedants out there I know it was 'Oktophonie' however at the time of writing I was away from me desk and unable to spell it.

I'm surprised. Did nobody go or are you just ignoring me? :-(

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I've been away, otherwise I would have responded sooner.

I was up the back and it was brilliant, the Blackpool Tower acoustic effects rather charming in their way but it was absolutely mesmerising. That having been said, the old pre-Darmstadt punk(tum) of Kontakte still packed the greater punch, but I suppose that it's the Here Come The Warm Jets to Oktophonie's Another Day On Earth.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I agree Kontakte took no prisoners but interestingly sounded rather naive (goes to show how far we've travelled, he was ahead at the time). Oktophonie certainly was much more ambient in its approach much to my surprize. I liked his faint little smiles and he did jokes!

What more could you want.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Naive? What do you mean naive?

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone see Kontakte a good few years ago being performed by the Reservoir people, in Holborn.

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Loved Kontakte; got a bit bored during Oktophonie. Incredible atmosphere though.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/small_circle/ for write-up.

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

By naive I meant that by today's standard practice in the electronic music field it comes over as quite a straightforward, if difficult to follow at times, construction of aural juxtaposition. I'm well aware how complex it is in production and appreciate that it is anything but simple; I would just say that to these ears it sounds of its day, but that shouldn't be read as a criticism. The angry young man of yesteryear, has become the extravagant, slightly loopy uncle to us all today and don't we love him for it.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't disagree less, most electronic music these days sounds straightforward, especially in comparison to "Kontakte"

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't disagree more I mean!! Ha ha

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I'd need to consider your point of view before answering that.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Karlheinz interview on The Culture Show tonight, BBC2 7pm. This is according to the Radio Times.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

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