Wednesday, March 29, 2006

the problem with Stockhausen (liner note whore chronicles)

I'm doing a paper on Gesang der Junglinge (comparing it with Berio's Thema: Omaggio a Joyce in terms of manipulated voices) and of course the only place you can find any of Stockhausen's non-KONTAKTE early work on compact disc is his own website. I don't begrudge the man control over his vast body of work but they are rather pricey. Yay libraries! Of course when thumbing through the rather extensive liner notes I changed my mind. Exhaustively detailed tome-esque liner notes connote worth it!


I'M THE OPERATOR WITH MY POCKET CALCULATOR!