Gottfried Michael Koenig
Process and Form:
Selected Writings on Music
Process and Form:
Selected Writings on Music
Gottfried
Michael Koenig (* Magdeburg, 1926) collaborated intensively
with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the 1950s in the Electronic Music Studio
of the WDR in Cologne, where he himself also produced several landmark
pieces of electronic and serial music. He moved to the Netherlands in
1964 to become the artistic director of Utrecht University's Studio for
Electronic Music, which in 1967 became the Institute of Sonology. Under
Koenig's supervision, the institute played a pioneering role in the
development of new production techniques for electronic music, including
digital sound synthesis, and programs for
computer-assisted composition. He has continued to compose electronic
music as well as music for solo instruments and ensembles, each work
representing a further step in a highly original and radical thought
process.
The
present volume of writings and conversations (1954–2001) – most of
which appear in English translation for the first time – document
Koenig"s systematic exploration of serial and aleatoric techniques,
relationships between technology and music, algorithmic composition and
reflections on music by others. Koenig"s music and writings are the
ideal subjects for a reorientation regarding 20th century musical
composition, of which many ideas are still at the beginnings of their
full exploration.
edited by Kees Tazelaar, translated by Richard Barrett
320 p., pb., € 32.–, 978-3-95593-090-5
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