And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

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• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change f

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music o

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, som

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with hi

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move ver

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or s

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

• Karlheinz Stockhausen:

  So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every wo