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Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Four Channels

Analysis Notes, October–November 2008, April 2009

by Kevin Austin

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Key Characteristics

Four channels, two layers.

  • bouncing sine tone
  • rotating granular (whirling rotation) sound [RB]
  • fixed pitch / glissando
  • generalized sense of rotation

Analysis of the Section (spoken)
(00:10)
Excerpt of the Section (audio)
(00:28)
Spectrogram
[4ch] [LB] [LF] [RF] [RB]

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