KarlHeinz Stockhausen is dead.
Stockhausen described the attacks of 9/11 as "the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos." According to a tape transcript from public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, he went on: "Minds achieving something in an act that we couldn't even dream of in music, people rehearsing like mad for 10 years, preparing fanatically for a concert, and then dying, just imagine what happened there. You have people who are that focused on a performance and then 5,000 people are dispatched to the afterlife, in a single moment. I couldn't do that. By comparison, we composers are nothing. Artists, too, sometimes try to go beyond the limits of what is feasible and conceivable, so that we wake up, so that we open ourselves to another world."
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"the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos."
You don't suppose he was like exaggerating, y'know, just a little bit...
I think the old Horsehead Nebula is pretty nifty...
was he buried in some twin towers syle coffins? with model planes made of dirt for the mourners to throw at it?
Hi WBS--
Guess we'll never know now!
Lorcy--
Trust you. ;-)
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