INTERVIEWS & DOCUMENTARIES

Clip from a BBC documentary, aired after his death in 2007.

Excerpt from Medici Arts DVD of Stockhausen discussing his Helicopter
String Quartet, written around the same time as Orchester-Finalisten and
Lucifers Tanz. (Film by Frank Scheffer).

Excerpt from Karlheinz Stockausen's May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union
entitled Four Criteria of Electronic Music. He discusses layering of sounds
electronically, a technique the composer used in Gesang der Junglinge.

A segment of Kontakte, an electronic masterpiece that moves from tone to
pulsating noise, written just after he completed Gesang der Junglinge.

Clip from BBC2's The Culture Show in 2005, discussing Gruppen, written in
the same period as Gesang der Junglinge and the LICHT cycle (of which
Lucifers Tanz, Michaels-Gruss and Michaels-Abschied are all part). There
is a short, amusing interview with Stockhausen at the end of the segment.

Telegraph TV's Culture Minute covers Southbank Centre's Stockhausen festival.

PERFORMANCES

KLANG - 2nd Hour: Freude (Joy), in a 2006 performance by Marianne Smit
and Esther Kooi, the harpists performing this work in the festival.

Part 1 of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's 1998 performance
of Gruppen, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, John Carewe and Daniel
Harding. Hear Gesang der Junglinge, composed in the same period as
Gruppen, performed in the festival. Parts two and three follow.

Part two.

Part three.

Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music performing the Helicopter
String Quartet in the 2003 Salzburg Festival. The work forms part of the
LICHT cycle, of which Lucifers Tanz, Michaels-Gruss and
Michaels-Abschied are all part.

EXPLORATIONS

Artist Duncan Chapman worked with Year 5 pupils from Heathbrook
Primary School in Lambeth, London and with students from the Royal
Academy of Music to create new music inspired by Stockhausen's
Mikrophonie I in October 2008 as part of our Stockhausen festival.