What is considered the last interview with Stockhausen (2007)

I find Stockhausen to be a decidedly genius person! I followed this interview with great interest and I find myself in perfect agreement with everything he maintains. In particular, it connects back to a discussion that I have made several times regarding contemporary music, a discussion on which I have been repeatedly attacked; now that the Maestro is saying it, I hope clarity can be achieved. At the end of his video he says: "This is a description of the apparatuses that I use and thanks to this score a person can understand how everything was composed. This does not yet mean that they manage to hear it all (hear it all in this case means to appreciate it in its entirety, complexity). For me too, it is a great challenge to hear this complex music that we are listening to now, for example. To listen to all the movements, the directions, the tempo, it requires enormous lucidity; you must be very precise. You can follow everything that is happening in the air and I find it interesting, I like it". In these last words, Stockhausen reinforces his figure not only as a musician, but more so as an experimenter in the field of electronic music in continuous search for new technological solutions. He confirms this idea of mine shortly after when he says: "I also had to invent a special machine that I call Okteg [...] There is no end to new discoveries, to research and to the invention of new machinery. Music now is strictly related to the equipment with which it is realized, and this is something totally new in history".

Therefore, I continue to maintain that contemporary music is something very, very interesting, but that is difficult to enjoy without knowing the author's purposes and intentions. Listening to a contemporary music concert totally unprepared regarding the author's choices can certainly provoke sensations, but to understand it deeply, one cannot do without their knowledge and what the author has left us. Not by chance, in all of Stockhausen's writings that he commented on in the video, key points are represented that are not presented in classical scores (e.g., directions of sound rotation, machinery used with specific techniques; a traditional score should limit itself to describing the progression of sounds over time, but it is evident that Stockhausen wants to give us more, he wants to give us the explanation of why behind an apparently incomprehensible music there is actually a world of perfect structure, combinations, and mathematics."},

TheSimon wrote:

I find myself in perfect agreement with everything they maintain

... and I find myself in full agreement with what you maintain

... of the rest like that of Krzysztof Penderecki

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2935-intervista-esclusiva-al-maestro-krzysztof-penderecki-in-occasione-dei-suoi-80-anni/

@TheSImon

It would be nice to "own" this video but I couldn't manage to download it. Do you happen to know any tricks to "recover" it"?

Thanks in advance

Sure, I'll download it for you in the afternoon... But where should I send it?

I am doing the conversion. I will upload it to my Google Drive and send you the link via private message.

If you can also send the link to me privately ... thanks

I also report Massimiliano Viel's interview with Stockhausen, published in the magazine "Sonus" in 1990 and included in the "primary literature" of the official bibliography of the Stockhausen Foundation. A book by Stockhausen translated by Viel is coming out from Postmedia Books.

https://www.academia.edu/5589938/Formeltechnick_ponte_tra_razionalita_intuito_e_memoria._Incontro_con_Karlheinz_Stockhausen