>[On September 16, 2001], the same journalist then asked [Stockhausen] how the events of 11 September had affected him, and how he viewed reports of the attack in connection with the harmony of humanity represented in Hymnen. He answered:
>"Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been. The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of, that people practise ten years madly, fanatically for a concert. And then die. And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos. Just imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. >It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the "concert". That is obvious. And nobody had told them: "You could be killed in the process.""
This is how rich spoiled egoistical faggots actually think.
Xavier Hernandez
jews are incapable of art
Liam Nguyen
"he believed the terrorists responsible for the September 11 attacks "need congratulating" because "
it was trendy at the time to be pro the side that bricks people to death for long trousers. In favour of the side that now incinerates young people from a video game console.
Asher Torres
what
Bentley Ramirez
He's basically saying Hitler was the greatest artist of all time and second world war (WORLD fucking war) the greatest work of art.
Cooper Barnes
based
Andrew Robinson
Can anyone post the 9/11 core chart?
Hunter Reyes
maybe i'm just projecting my opinions onto him, but didn't he mean to say 9/11 was such a tremendous event, evoking so much feelings and interest in people, that art as a whole falls short in comparison?
Jaxon Young
missing the point not at all, he's speaking English as a second language here missing the point he's the most Aryan person ITT and I know for a fact he was a supremacist wrong great response closer to the point than anyone else yeah I know right I can't, sorry Bingo
Camden Moore
>he's the most Aryan person ITT and I know for a fact he was a supremacist no i was talking about the supposed artists who perpetrated the attack
Josiah Cook
>wrong No I'm not
Nicholas Thomas
This carries some truth, but ultimately this is pretentious and disrespectful. To call such an event "The biggest work of art", and compare it to a concert is beyond disrespectful.
Alexander Turner
Being disrespectful is art.
Elijah Diaz
>muh respect Look where we are
Adrian Lopez
here it is
Benjamin Perez
yeah you are what if he's using an expanded notion of "concert" to include things that are genuine or tragic?
Nathan Lewis
Name one work of art bigger than the September 11 attacks
especially when it was literally 5 days after the attack
>As a result of the reaction to the press report of Stockhausen's comments, a four-day festival of his work in Hamburg was canceled. In addition, his pianist daughter announced to the press that she would no longer appear under the name "Stockhausen".
Juan Phillips
the holocaust
Nathaniel Thompson
Ignorant art haters.
Justin Young
Americans massacring indians to build their empire Donald Trump That giant opera thing Stockhausen was doing
Jose Morales
this
Juan Johnson
kek'd at that last one
Nicholas Gomez
Friendly reminder that World War 2 was the greatest artistic achievement ever. And I don't mean it because it had the biggest death toll, but because it really was an artistic achievement.
>I know for a fact he was a supremacist Oh yeah? Prove it. It had something to do with Aliens I think
See the top of my post
Bentley Price
i like him in this video when the guy suggests electronic music is soulless, he goes full ubermensch youtube.com/watch?v=aA8vp03Aa1E
Luis Foster
This He's right, in a sense, but everybody else says the same thing and says it in a way that isn't pretentious and inconsiderate
Hudson Richardson
Jackie chan
Oliver Baker
>Prove it. I know someone who studied with him. He would write long pitch class equations on a board and stop suddenly and point at someone and ask them what the next number was. They would invariably say they didn't know and he would always reply "tsk, tsk, a European composer would have been able to answer that"
This was when he was accepting only non-European pupil in the 70s, presumably in order to "enlighten" their home countries with his teachings.
Carson Evans
Spectacle theory is pretty interesting, sure But he said it in a damn disrespectful way
Isaiah Brooks
Stockhausen serves imperialism
Joshua Perry
Do you guys think people like Stockhausen and Xenakis are superior to Classical/Baroque/Whatever composers?
Jeremiah Brown
Should be Hail to the Thief instead of the pre-9/11 OK Computer, dontcha think?
