Björk Meets Karlheinz Stockhausen || Interview

Björk:

I went to music school from the age of five and then, when I was 12 or 13, I was into musicology and this Icelandic composer and teacher at the school introduced me to Stockhausen. I remember being almost the fighter in the school, the odd kid out, with a real passion for music, but against all this retro, constant Beethoven and Bach bollocks. Most of it was this frustration with the school's obsession with the past. When I was introduced to Stockhausen it was like 'aaah'! Finally somebody was speaking my language. Stockhausen has said phrases like, "We should listen to 'old' music one day a year and the other 364 days we should listen to 'now' music.

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Björk Meets Karlheinz Stockhausen • Interview (text)


Karlheinz Stockhausen on the pulpit (sort of).