CoL49 (3) Music of the future [PC 34, PF 48]

[János Székely]

When it comes to Stockhausen's influence, don't forget about early 70s
Krautrock produced in Cologne studios (Can, Kraftwerk, etc.) and the
electronic waves (no pun) that followed. OBA was being prophetic
again. Holger Czukay, at least, looks like the ideal reader of COL 49.

Janos

2009/5/18 Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> Rich:
>>
>> Stockhausen--another example of an alternative way of
>> communication--can't think of a better example of a representative of
>> the WASTE symbolism than him in music
>
> I cannot think of a more prescient incident in CoL49. The time when "The
> Crying of Lot 49" was published was in the moment when the push against LSD
> was first underway. Or maybe it really was a plot to push Acid on the public
> even harder—bet you anything that will be a biggie in IV. . .
>
> In any case, CoL49 came out in 1966 and the effect of Stochausen on popular
> music really came to a boil in 1966. His influence has been and continues to
> be enormous. Stockhausen was all the rage at Acid's considerable peak, at
> least among those musicians that by grabbing the means of production engaged
> in a public contest to see who could cook up the weirdest sounding
> commercially viable records, all the while pushing the outer edges of
> electronic strangeness and the shock of the new. As we all know, the winners
> of that contest were the Beatles.
>
> But compared to that contest of the very strange, the early Pioneers of
> electronic music went one up on Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Byrds, being
> more like Captain Beefheart
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pa2q8y
>
> and creating the flat-out strangest stuff they could come up with, without
> consideration of public acceptance. Stockhausen's
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfeWp2y1Lk
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNt6a5xFOnE
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aeagbZBRs
>
> contemporaries include John Cage,
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6h1A6TEIE
>
> the Fluxus Movement,
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE0Ckn0V41I
>
> & Iannis Xenakis.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlKINcSTBE
>
> Many of their concepts got incorporated into popular music. The most extreme
> example of this sort of crossover into pop has to be:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDRdMSTAnAg
>
> [the most obvious example of disinformation concerning this cultural
> artifact has to be]:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc
>
> No-one is THAT popular anymore [not even Jesus], but we still have many
> varieties of truly weird sounds finding their way to the marketplace. This
> video is contraindicated for those taking mao reuptake inhibitors It's
> NSFA/A—Not Safe For Anyone/Anywhere:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0
>