Earlier this year, Radio 3 sent a package of
tapes to Karlheinz Stockhausen. The tapes contained music by Aphex
Twin, Plastikman, 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”. But first, they talked about the German composer’s
own youthful experiments in electronic synthesis. This article
originally appeared in The Wire 141 (November 1995).
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Features: Fred Frith, Lalo Schifrin, The Primer:
Field Recordings, Julian Cope's jukebox, Hugh Davies, Req, Kevin
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