Karlheinz Stockhausen
Es und Aufwärts (Aus den Sieben Tagen)
Deutsche Grammophon (Germany) 197x
2530 255 (LP)
sleeve : EX-(some light wear on edge and corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
Kicking off from classic serialism and moving through group compositions, moment form, and the Formel technique—while leaving behind a substantial legacy in live-electronic works—Karl-Heinz Stockhausen stands as one of Germany’s defining figures in contemporary music. This 1972 release on the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label captures that stature in full. Issued under the title “It and Upwards (From the Seven Days),” the album draws from sessions recorded at the West German Radio studios in Cologne. What you get here is an electronic tapestry where piano, viola, and percussion intertwine with Harald Bojé’s synthesizer work, Stockhausen’s own vocalizations, and the unpredictable textures of shortwave radio. There’s no traditional score—no five-line staves to follow. The performance is built entirely from prepared text instructions, recorded straight to stereo tape in one uninterrupted pass, with no edits, no cuts, no mixdown tricks. The result is a field of sound where scattered instrumental gestures and fragmented melodic figures carve out space, giving rise to Stockhausen’s pursuit of “intuitive music,” a radical exploration of indeterminacy pushed to its outer limit.
This is a German pressing, likely from the late 1970s.
A: ES・IT・CA
B: Aufwärts Upwards en Montant
Es und Aufwärts (Aus den Sieben Tagen)
Deutsche Grammophon (Germany) 197x
2530 255 (LP)
sleeve : EX-(some light wear on edge and corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
Kicking off from classic serialism and moving through group compositions, moment form, and the Formel technique—while leaving behind a substantial legacy in live-electronic works—Karl-Heinz Stockhausen stands as one of Germany’s defining figures in contemporary music. This 1972 release on the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label captures that stature in full. Issued under the title “It and Upwards (From the Seven Days),” the album draws from sessions recorded at the West German Radio studios in Cologne. What you get here is an electronic tapestry where piano, viola, and percussion intertwine with Harald Bojé’s synthesizer work, Stockhausen’s own vocalizations, and the unpredictable textures of shortwave radio. There’s no traditional score—no five-line staves to follow. The performance is built entirely from prepared text instructions, recorded straight to stereo tape in one uninterrupted pass, with no edits, no cuts, no mixdown tricks. The result is a field of sound where scattered instrumental gestures and fragmented melodic figures carve out space, giving rise to Stockhausen’s pursuit of “intuitive music,” a radical exploration of indeterminacy pushed to its outer limit.
This is a German pressing, likely from the late 1970s.
A: ES・IT・CA
B: Aufwärts Upwards en Montant