Stockhausen – On sound and composition

Interesting lecture on the origin of composition for sound. He gets close to the idea of sound works being outside music… you can almost hear that barrier in his mind get pushed.

How LPs are made

A beautiful step-by-step of how LPs are manufactured. Oddly inspiring.

Ligeti – Artikulations

After Stockhausen’s death I spoke with some friends about the Max/MSP patch for his piece Studie II that let you see the correspondences between his graphical score and how it sounds in real time. Someone sent me this link to his score for Artikulations, with audio.

What the future sounded like

Great documentary about Tristram Cary and EMS here.