Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte / Refrain
Columbia (Japan) 1975
OW-7574-VX (LP)
sleeve : EX(very slightly color-faded.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)
This is an album of 1959/1960 works by Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, one of Germany's leading contemporary musicians, who began with typical serie rhythms and continued to develop into group music, moment forms, and forme techniques, and who also left behind many live electronic works. Released in 1975 on Nippon Columbia's "Classics of Contemporary Music" series, "Kontakt" (A1/B1) is an electronic music piece recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of the West German Radio in Cologne. As the title suggests, "Refrain", a composition for three instrumentalists, is a Stockhausen-style adaptation of John Cage's method of chance operations.