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

["d. daniell" <m@tinynumbers.com>]

while i certainly have questioned stockhausen's politics over the
years, i think for completeness the following should be shared -
from stockhausen's website -
http://stockhausen.org/message_from_karlheinz.html

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Professor Karlheinz Stockhausen 51515 Kürten GERMANY Message from
Professor Karlheinz Stockhausen

After returning from Hamburg I find false, defamatory reports in
the press.

I am as dismayed as everyone else about the attacks in America.

At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if MICHAEL, EVE
and LUCIFER were historical figures of the past and I answered
that they exist now, for example Lucifer in New York.

In my work, I have defined Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of
rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high degree of intelligence
to destroy creation. He does not know love.

After further questions about the events in America, I said that
such a plan appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of
course I used the designation "work of art" to mean the work
of destruction personified in Lucifer. In the context of my
other comments this was unequivocal.

I cannot find a fitting name for such a "satanic composition".
In my case, it was not and is not my intention to hurt anyone.
Since the beginning of the attack on I have felt solidarity
with all of the human beings mourning this atrocity.

Not for were one moment have I thought or felt the way my
words are now being interpreted in the press.

The journalist in Hamburg completely ripped my statements
out of a context, which he had not recorded in its entirety,
to use it as a vile attack against my person and the Hamburg
Music Festival.

This whole situation is regrettable and I am deeply sorry if
my remarks were misconstrued to offend the grieving families
of the brutal terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington
D.C.". I will continue to keep the victims of this outrage in
my prayers

Karlheinz Stockhausen September 19, 2001

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Statement by Webmaster Stockhausen's comments during the Hamburg
interview were delivered in the context of a metaphoric line of
questioning. He provided an allegorical answer to an allegorical
question. Anyone who knows Stockhausen can tell you that he is
a compassionate and thoughtful person. The journalist who spewed
forth this unconscionable poison should immediately retract his
untruthful reporting and publish an apology to Stockhausen. I live
in the USA and we are doing our best with God's help to get through
this cowardly and hateful attack on our nation by terrorists.
I also serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Fire
Protection District. I personally am acquainted with heroic fire
fighters from our area who are tirelessly laboring at Ground Zero
in NYC. As a loyal and patriotic American, I can tell you that
Karlheinz Stockhausen is not the kind of man to condone terrorism
in ANY form. On September 13 Kathinka Pasveer sent me a thoughtful
fax from Karlheinz, Suzee Stephens (who is American) and herself
that said "We all follow the tragedy in the USA and pray for you
all. So terrible." The reporter who wrote this rubbish for the sake
of his own financial and professional gain should be condemned by
the public for his sensational lies and promptly fired by his
employer.

James Stonebraker, Webmaster St. Louis, Missouri USA
September 19, 2001



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