Karlheinz Stockhausen
Telemusik / Mixtur
Deutsche Grammophon (Germany) 1969
643 546 (LP) Austrian pressing. coated sleeve.
sleeve : EX+(coating slightly lifting in a small area.)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly noise.)
One of Germany’s leading figures in contemporary music, Karlheinz Stockhausen evolved from classic serialism to group composition, moment form, and the Formel technique, and also left behind a substantial body of live-electronics works. This album, released in 1969, features two landmark pieces of early electronic music. Side A’s “Telemusik” was produced in 1966 at the NHK Electronic Music Studio in Tokyo, using a six-channel tape recorder—available only in Japan at the time—to create a five-channel spatially separated recording later mixed down to two-channel stereo. Side B’s “Mixtur” was produced at the West German Radio studio in Cologne, where the outputs of woodwinds, brass, and strings—each routed through its own microphone—were modulated by ring modulators, while percussion captured via contact microphones was expanded through three discrete loudspeakers, all elements merging into a single composite sound. Both works stand as monumental achievements of early electronic music. Original German edition, rare Austrian pressing.