Prozession

by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Prozession cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Candide
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 49:08
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Prozession' is a formidable work of the post-war avant-garde, relying heavily on indeterminacy and live electronic processing. Performers are instructed to react and interact using fragments of Stockhausen's earlier compositions, resulting in a constantly shifting, stochastic sonic environment.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, atonal, complex, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Prozession (27:20)
  2. Prozession (Continued) (21:48)

Credits

  • Nicolas Sch枚ffer - cover [sculpture mobile]
  • Aloys Kontarsky - piano
  • Harald Boj茅 - synthesizer [elektronium]
  • Alfred Alings - tam-tam
  • Rolf Gehlhaar - tam-tam
  • Johannes G. Fritsch - viola

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