[Nettime-bold] Stockhausen: WTC attack is "biggest artwork of all times"

[Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

According to the German news agency dpa, Karlheinz Stockhausen said in
an interview he gave on account of a concert in Hamburg:

"What happened there is - now you must readjust your brain - the biggest
artwork of all times. That spirits achieve in a single act what we in
music cannot dream of, that people rehearse ten years long like mad,
totally fanatical for a concert and then die. This is the biggest
artwork that exists at all in the whole universe... I couldn't match
it. Against that, we - as composers - are nothing."

Asked by a jorunalist whether he identified art and crime, Stockhausen
replied: "It's a crime because the people were not consenting. They
haven't come to the 'concert'. This is evident. And nobody had announced
them that they could die in its process. What happened there
spiritually, this leap from security, from what's ordinary, from life,
that sometimes happens poco a poco in art. Or else it is nothing."

The Financial Times Germany quotes Stockhausen's colleague Gyorgy Ligeti
with the following reaction: "Stockhausen has taken the side of the
terrorists. [...] If he thinks this atrocious mass murder is an
artwork, I am sorry that I have to say that he should be locked up in a
psychiatric hospital".

(All quotes translated from German by me)

Florian

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