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The Stockhausen Project

The Stockhausen Project is a twelve-month, internet-based, collaborative project that explores arrangements of Stockhausen's work Tierkreis for different instrumental forces. Each movement will be arranged by Steven Roberts '18 (Contemporary Music Studies) and Alex Peh (Faculty Advisor) as part of the AYURE grant for faculty/student research, performed and recorded by faculty and students of the Department of Music at SUNY New Paltz, and videotaped by students in Digital Media Production. Additional support provided by Corey Mathes '16 (Digital Media Production) and Connor Milton '16 (Contemporary Music Studies). Each performance will be recorded and put online on the first day of the corresponding zodiac sign, thus providing a "musical horoscope" for each month.  The full performance of Tierkreis will begin September 2016 and conclude in August 2017.

Performances:

 

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About Tierkreis

Tierkreis (Zodiac) is one of Stockhausen’s most popular works.  It is a collection of twelve serially-based melodies, each titled after one of the zodiac signs in western Astrology. Each melody was conceived to be played by a music box as part of a larger theatrical piece called Musik im Bauch (Music in the Belly) scored for percussionists and music boxes. The twelve melodies together can be performed on any instrument or combination of instruments. Stockhausen instructs the performer to create variations of each melody by subtracting notes, altering dynamics, tempi, articulation and register.

 

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About Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22, 1928 - Dec 5, 2007) was a German composer and theoretician. His groundbreaking work in serial, electronic, aleatoric, and experimental music has earned him praise by critics as being one of the most important visionaries of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

 

Leo: July 23 - August 22

Leo

 

Cancer: June 22 - July 22

 

Gemini: May 22 - June 21

 

Taurus: April 21 - May 21

 

Aries: March 21 - April 20

 

Pisces: February 20 - March 20

 

Aquarius: January 21 - February 19

 

Capricon: December 22 - January 20

 

Sagittarius: November 23 - December 21

 

Scorpio: October 24 - November 22

 

September 24 - October 23

 

Virgo: August 23 - September 23

 

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