Five myths about Contemporary Classical Music

[james]

Here is some info on Kraftwerk and Stockhausen
http://kraftwerkfaq.hu/related-projects ... tockhausen
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Did Kraftwerk ever work with Stockhausen?

There seem to be several popular rumours about connections between famous electro-acoustic music composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and Kraftwerk, but these are without sensible foundation. Pascal Bussy's book Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music mentions that Ralf and Florian once attended a concert of the composer's music, and in interviews, Ralf Huetter of Kraftwerk has cited Stockhausen as an influence. However, whereas Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt of another famous "Krautrock" group, Can, did study under Stockhausen, no member of Kraftwerk is known to have done so.
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and here is Stockhausen giving advice to various pop groups
http://www.stockhausen.org/ksadvice.html
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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 travelled to
Salzburg to meet Stockhausen and ask him for his opinion on the music of
these four "Technocrats".
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james