Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
Karlheinz StockhausenRepetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
Karlheinz StockhausenWe are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.
Karlheinz StockhausenAnd the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen