Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928-2007
Lecture 5 - Four Criteria of Electronic Music (KONTAKTE), Part 2 (1972)
Duration: 44'33"

Given at the Oxford Union on May 6th 1972.

The title of the work “refers both to contacts between instrumental and electronic sound groups and to contacts between self-sufficient, strongly characterized moments. In the case of four-channel loudspeaker reproduction, it also refers to contacts between various forms of spatial movement”.

Lecture 5, Part 1
Lecture 5, Part 2
Lecture 5, Part 3

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