[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Stockhausen: WTC attack is "biggest artwork of alltimes"

[S U P E R T O U C H <supertouch@gmx.de>]

As Stockhausen himself states on his official website 
[http://www.stockhausen.org/message_from_karlheinz.html] his 
statements held on a press conference for the Hamburg Festival of New 
Music have obviously been misquoted, as he called the terrorist 
attack on New York City "greatest work of art of LUCIFER".

Witnessing the conference Kathinka Pasweer of Stockhausen's 
publishing house states that the composer's words have completely 
been twisted by a journalist for Bild, Germany's leading yellow press 
newspaper:

"I was at the press conference in Hamburg.

Being asked by journalist, if MICHAEL, EVE and LUCIFER were 
historical figures of the past, he answered that they were existing 
now.

For example, LUCIFER in the attack of New York.

After more questions about this he said "that for a musician it seems 
like rehearsing ten years for one concert and then killing oneself 
and 5000 people. The whole planning looked like the greatest piece of 
art of LUCIFER."

Naturally Stockhausen is shocked - like everybody else - by the 
horror of this terrible event and cannot understand it.

The journalist (for BILD) has completely twisted Stockhausen's words 
out of context and used it against the Hamburg Festival of New Music."
[http://www.stockhausen.org/reply_to_ndr.html]



In this context, there is also a quite interesting article in German 
by Goedart Palm published for Telepolis:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/auf/9595/1.html

as well as an english commentary by David Hudson "A Willful Misunderstanding?":
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9594/1.html











>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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