By: Spacelab Research Staff
Experimental electronic music composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died on December 5th at age 79 in Kurten, Germany. He succumbed to an illness.
Stockhausen started out by recording found sounds and working them into musical compositions before moving on to large-scale orchestrations. He was a force and influence on electronic, avant-garde and classical music.
His advanced theories on sound composition and the effcts it had on the mind and human experience led him to eventually compose pieces like his famous "Gesang der Junglinge."
Listen too him speak at a lecture at the Oxford Union on 'Four Criteria of Electronic Music' in the video above.
