Karlheinz Stockhausen · Mixtur 2003
Live-electronic orchestra music | (C) 2009 NEOS Music GmbH · (P) 2008 musica viva / Bayerischer Rundfunk
NEOS 10927 | Vol. 1 of musica viva festival 2008 6 CD box set
EAC-FLAC separate tracks | No CUE, no LOG | 150 dpi scans | 226 MB | Megaupload | WinRAR | 1 CD | 58:42 | Live recording
Live-electronic orchestra music | (C) 2009 NEOS Music GmbH · (P) 2008 musica viva / Bayerischer Rundfunk
NEOS 10927 | Vol. 1 of musica viva festival 2008 6 CD box set
EAC-FLAC separate tracks | No CUE, no LOG | 150 dpi scans | 226 MB | Megaupload | WinRAR | 1 CD | 58:42 | Live recording
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total playing time 58:42
Karlheinz Stockhausen [1928 – 2007]
MIXTUR 2003 [2003]
for 5 orchestra groups, 4 sine-wave generator players, 4 sound mixers, with 4 ring modulators and sound projectionist
[1] Forward version 29:04
[2] Retrograde version 29:37
EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR
sound director André Richard
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
conducted by Lucas Vis
live recording
25 January 2008
Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich
MIXTUR is the historical leap from the classic orchestra to the Electronic Klangkoerper
(literally: body of sound, the German term for all large ensembles, such as orchestras and
choirs).
The form is a MOMENT-FORM: twenty musical Moments help us learn changing
transformations in five orchestra groups, as they were called in the first version in 1964:
MIXTURE in unknown timbre glissandi – PERCUSSION with scraped metal discs –
BLOCKS with 6 micro-rhythms – DIRECTION with 5 flying plucked clouds, a Marienlied
above 2 clinking expanses –11 shimmering CHANGES which step-wise fall from whirring to
blazing solo instruments – extreme CALM in slumbering timbral strata – and so on until the
glassy HIGH C.
And then the BACKWARDS VERSION following the intermission: Only once in over 320
works have I risked – namely in the SCHLAGTRIO in 1952 – to have music played
backwards: in MIXTUR I experience it like the journey following the physical death: white
HIGH C – PIZZICATO-players transparently alternating – LAYERS of sound- skeletons in
strands of tone-hail – DIALOGUE between shouting shots and bronze beats – and so on:
backwards into the dreamy reminiscence.
Everyone is invited back to the beginning.
Whoever wants to hear well, closes his eyes.
For sure I am electronic myself – and our Spirit is ring modulated downwards as well as
upwards.
K. Stockhausen, August 28th 2006
ks2003
This is the only recorded version of this work, because that of the Stockhausen-Verlag (CD 8) corresponds to the 1964-67 version.
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