Recently I caught up with Kevin Austin to talk about his involvement with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte.
Stockhausen demonstrating the 4-channel technique used in Kontakte
He spoke at length about how the 4-channel version of the piece really alters a listener’s perception of the piece, and how Kontakte has presaged many other movements in [...]
Browsing the most recent issue of the SEAMUS newsletter, I noticed a link to a recorded version of Kevin Austin’s lecture on Stockhausen’s Kontakte. In this lecture, Austin breaks down Kontakte, and tries to make the piece listener-friendly. At SEAMUS 2009, he also handed out a packet, which contains his listening [...]
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