Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Four Channels

Structure VII

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Key Characteristics

Four channel unison.

• resonant sine tone (pulse into a resonant filter)
• (single sound <-> fused sound)
• register(s)
• attack / decay characteristics
• regularity?
• speed of attack
• sustained sound simulated through rapid reiteration (granulation effect)
• dynamics (mostly crescendi); sound aggregates getting louder
• Continuum from (1) sound (2) same sound repeated (3) different sounds fusing.