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Article from The Wire, November 1995
Earlier this year, Radio 3 sent a package of tapes to Karlheinz Stockhausen. The tapes contained music by Aphex Twin, Plasticman, Scanner and Daniel Pemberton. Then in August, the station's reporter Dick Witts traveled to Salzburg to meet Stockhausen and ask him for his opinion on the music of these four "Technocrats". But first, they talked about the German composer's own youthful experiments in electronic synthesis...
DW: When you started as a composer, how different were the conditions from today?
KS: I studied music as a pianist, and learning all the traditional techniques of composing, in an institution called Stadtliche Hofschule für Musik. We had about ten disciplines to study: choir, orchestra, conducting, piano was my main instrument, then musicology, harmony and counterpoint. I wrote several works in traditional styles, but also two works, so-called 'free compositions', one for orchestra and alto voice, a work which is still available on CD called the Drei Lieder. I started composing at the age of 20, 1948, the first time I considered my music to be of some general importance, and they are available, like the violin sonatina...
