Stockhausen/ Tudor - Historic First of the Klavierstucke I-Viii & Xi Release:Historic First of the Klavierstucke I-Viii & Xi Hathut Records The result is an album

The result is an album that's at once a time capsule and a memorial

the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung described the Wilms as 'one of the most ingenious

starting with transitioning back to playing guitar instead of keys

Carrying a blues foundation and providing plenty of room for spontaneity

from the attic of an office building on Potsdamer Platz

Stockhausen/ Tudor - Historic First of the Klavierstucke I-Viii & Xi Release:Historic First of the Klavierstucke I-Viii & Xi Hathut Records The result is an albumStockhausen calls his piano pieces his "drawings", the pieces in which he sketches out ideas without the added color complexity of instrumental timbres. More significantly, in these early pieces you can hear a composer grappling with the challenge of electronic sound, looking for "envelope curves" that will allow the old medium to compete with the new. As played by David Tudor in this historic recording, the piano gives it's answer to the synthesizer.