Karlheinz Stockhausen
Es / Aufwärts (LP)
FormatLPLabelDeutsche GrammophonGenreExperimental
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In May 1968, during a week of fasting and isolation, Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote Aus den sieben Tagen, fifteen text compositions that ask the musicians to play "intuitively", reacting to states of mind rather than notes. Es asks them to play only when they reach a state of non-thinking; Aufwärts pushes them upward, towards ever higher vibrations.
The recordings were made in Darmstadt in August 1969 by his group, with Aloys Kontarsky, Harald Bojé on electronium, Rolf Gehlhaar and Alfred Alings on percussion and Stockhausen himself on shortwave receiver and filters. Close to free improvisation, but with a ritual tension all its own. A Deutsche Grammophon release from 1973.
Release notes
Recorded at the Georg-Moller-Haus (Loge) in Darmstadt, from the 26th to 31st August 1969.
| A | Es | 23:10 | |
| B | Aufwärts | 29:20 |
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Composed By, Voice Liner Notes, Electronics [Kw-empfänger, 2 Rin, 2 Filter, Regler]
- Rolf Gehlhaar
- Drums, Percussion [Tam-tam, Flexatone, Guero], Flute [Bamboo], Jew's Harp
- Alfred Alings
- Drums, Percussion [Tam-tam, Flexatone, Guero], Jew's Harp
- Harald Boje
- Featuring [Electronium] (A)
- Aloys Kontarsky
- Piano
- Dr. Rudolf Werner
- Producer
- Westdeutschen Rundfunk Köln
- Recorded By
- Johannes G. Fritsch
- Viola
