Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Four Channels

Structure I

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Key Characteristics

Mélange, many sounds, many locations:

• sustained <-> short
• simple <-> complex
• one channel / several channels
• one sound; two sounds, overlapped on one channel
• use of space, both controlled and chaotic
• mostly loud; noisy, quasi-noise, metallic, pitched, damped oscillation

Listen to the whole and listen to the parts.