Stimmung
Seventy-five minutes on a single chord that somehow contains the universe, as six voices pry open the overtone series until the boundary between singing, chanting, and praying ceases to exist.
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Era & Context
Created in 1968 during the countercultural explosion, Stimmung brought Eastern meditation practices into Western avant-garde composition. Six vocalists sustain a single chord for over an hour, exploring its overtone series with a patience that anticipated drone music, ambient music, and spectral composition by decades.
Career Phase
Spiritual and political dimensions through radical new performance practices. Moving beyond pure electronics into ritual, vocalization, and found sound, Stockhausen sought music as a vehicle for transcendence.
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