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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

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In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

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It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Composer

Born: August 22nd, 1928

Died: December 5th, 2007

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