Episode 1 | The Music Machine: The Technocrats

Duration: 15'01''

Synopsis

Dick Witts interviews Karlheinz Stockhausen on how technology has changed the role of the composer. Stockhausen's experiments helped give today's ambient techno composers a musical language, and today the tape produced by scientists that led him to begin work in their new electronic music studio is heard on radio for the first time.

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