top 5 avant garde electronics epics

[Leo]

Any particular reason or is he just out of fashion?

is Stockhausen still canceled from 9/11?

 

[version]

is Stockhausen still canceled from 9/11?

That's what I was wondering. He seemed like a bit of a knob in general too.

 

[wektor]

He seemed like a bit of a knob in general too.

Well, kind of, but in a very tongue in cheek way I would say.

 

[mvuent]

Any particular reason or is he just out of fashion?

does seem like he is cancelled a bit. taken to be this stuffy, elitist, problematic establishment figure. of course, at the time when hymnen was made his reputation was almost the exact opposite. the bigwig classical critic of the era harold schonberg wrote a review of one performance of it called “stockhausen: pied piper of the young” that's spent puzzling over the bright eyed, casually dressed, young audience who evidently flocked to the performance.