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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 solos as quasi-pairs.

  • axis pairing
  • RF / LB general high frequency modulation (ring modulator quality)
  • LF / RB noise spectra (lower level)
  • small additions as echo and pre-echo

Analysis of the Section (spoken)
(01:07)
Excerpt of the Section (audio)
(00:45)
Spectrogram
[4ch] [LB] [LF] [RF] [RB]

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