It is surely one of both or three more
infuriating, innovative, problematic, controversial, admired composers and praised in the
current world.
Their words can make think that with "freedom" he only
means personal expression according to the old concept. But it is not this way: their
music is sometimes magnificently vulgar, but it is also falteringly cerebral.
Stockhausen is in these moments the rector of the whole
electronic music that takes place in the world, a music that tries to overcome the elite
barriers that it interposes him its difficulties of cultural access, but that in
definitive fight to become the humanity's faithful reflection.
In Stockhausen, the sound is plagued of fantastic musical
annotations, almost dominated by the indicators of power and modulators but it is also
filled of rich, corporal humanity. With all that he is not breaking any law of the music
because it doesn't recognize any law type. Because it invents the tonal experience as
quickly as the birds they can fly.
Their name is often mentioned by Frank Zappa in its recitals
or albums. It is said that The Beatles was very influenced by their music. In these
moments it has just turned forty two years, but it feels young and integrated precisely
for that reason to the generation of musicians that is trying to change the things, he
writes this Letter open to the young generation". Where they are ideas it has more
than enough musical concepts, and of other, much more radical that those that can express
today in day interpreters only rebellious in their external aspect: they are not enough
certain clichés like the clothes, the reluctance and certain revolutionary declarations
to be a rebellious and committed musician. Stockhausen, although it has been
crowned as the king of the vanguard, it hates the elite concept, it sinks the snobs
because they are as hypocritical with their musical refinement as with regard to their
relationships sexual extramaritales. And nobody can seek to be simply charmed with Kariheinz
Stockhausen's music. It is not in no way an art of dedicated living room s that waste
it the rich ones. What continues is the almost philosophical document for the musicians
-and also for those that are not it - of the new generation: Once again we are wrapped in
a revolution, but eata time it is happening in the whole world. This time, let us really
fix the highest goals that it was us possible! The whole humanity is in game!
There was a time in that the conscience became so strong in some
animals that became animals. Now we are in a moment in which the súper makes aware of
some few men it is becoming so strong that they are near becoming higher beings. Here, in
this same earth! Alone very few they will be successful in this evolution, but in each man
the desire exists of being developed beyond itself, to acquire a more highly evolved
knowledge. This is the cause of the crises that we are experiencing in the entire world,
and the worst thing is to come. Along the world, ancontramos the oppressive, and panicky
feeling that there in front of us there is something that you can only compare with the
birth of the first plant starting from the inanimate matter, with the birth of the first
animal starting from the vegetable Kingdom or with the first man's birth starting from the
animal Kingdom -a new stage in the development of the conscience -
As strong as the man's yearning for the being's next stage it is
their fear, and their resistance to open up to this new conscience. Some few individuals,
groups, parties, towns, believe that they enjoy primacy and that therefore they can
suppress and to eat up literally to the other ones. Because truly, we are unequal, with
regard to the intelligence and to the possibilities, and we know that some few of us will
only be successful in the task of being free and in achieving a súper state it makes
aware by means of our own interior power. In the same way, some few animals only knew how
to become in human. One can only end up being more highly human overcoming their
egocentrismo and also overcoming the fear to get lost to itself this way. Let us don't try
to establish new systems in opposition to those that want to demolish, because the systems
are too restrictive, and they want to exclude, to suppress and to eradicate the
dissidents. Our conception should be so wide that we see each other to ourselves like part
of the whole world, allowing to the old systems that die, without perpetuating them and
without adding new systems for those that we seek to proclaim exclusive rights on the mind
of other men.
The systems are products of that reason that our ancestors made only
master of the body, in which the soul was a prisioner. The old systems attributed all the
power to the first servant of the body, the reason. But let us be aware that the reason,
unless it is constantly fed by a higher inspiration from the supraracional, continually he
makes the combinations with all that is accumulated in her and he can, in any moment, to
proclaim what is given the desire like true it can -even proclaim that opposed as true -.
One can use the reason for any propósit. It can sustain any opinion. It can justify, to
prove or to refute everything. And if one has not learned how to manage it, can run
crazily without never stopping. It is an useful instrument, nothing else and anything
less. He is a computer model. But who does use it? and for what reason?
The súper-ego should give us food for thinking. And the súper-ego
acquires that food of the intuitive conscience, of the highest it makes aware cosmic
personal súper.
Why do I make such an asseveration, me that finally of bill I am a
musician and not a philosopher? Because us the musicians devieramos to live so
intuitivamentecomo was possible. Because I have discovered that everything begins again
when one acquires this conscience and it is to develop it all all that is possible. Then
one is only secondarily a musician, one is specialist, a man with a profession. Before
anything, one is an individual spirit that he/she should take contact with the universal
spirit before trying to communicate something from importance to the rest of people.
The music should not be alone a bathroom of waves that they massage
the body, a tonal psicograma, a thought program with tones.
It should be a metamorphosed tonal current of súper-conscious
cosmic electricity.
Most of the musicians that practice the music today in day are
carrying out an automatic action -incoscientemente - and they have lost the enthusiasm
that perhaps tubieron during a brief lapse when they were very young and they were very
resolved with regard to the music like profession. We should build again from the
beginning, and once again we should wake up that original enthusiasm, otherwise to abandon
the music.
For that reason, they should dissolve all the orchestras and choirs
for a while and to give each musician the opportunity and the time to look inside yes, to
meditate, to discover what that is for it which lives, why music he/she makes and if it is
deeply surrendered to the music and therefore he should be devoted to her. Unfortunately,
we would see that most of the musicians that have been during committed years with this
profession of the music, and that they believe that this activity continued until they die
or retire, they would leave the music and they would be devoted to another thing. Perhaps
they would not make anything during a long time (whenever one continued paying them and
therefore depriving them of those old financial arguments that make people to continue
having what hates), what could be in yes very fruitful. The habitual reasons to make money
-remain live or to always satisfy the demands in increase of each one - they are after all
nothing else that you reason lazy. In the India, in a highway between Agra
and Jaipur, I met a musician that played for me in a small instrument of strings
that there was construído him same. And one of the few wonderful musicians that I have
known was. It didn't possess anything. He told me that when obtained a good remuneration
it was when it achieved it was when it achieved three cents approximately per day, thrown
by some pedestrian to which he liked their music. When I asked him if would sell me their
instrument for twenty dollars -a sum that could not win neither in some several years -
he/she looked at me astonished, they ran him tears for the cheeks and it shook the head:
No. I felt deadly embarrassed.
Those that want to be musicians, following their higher call, they
should begin with the simplest in the meditation exercises, at the beginning alone with
themselves: "To play a tone with the idea that one has the whole time and the space
of the world", and that there from now on. Before anything, anyway, they should
acquire conscience, it makes aware of why they are alive, of why we all are alive to
achieve a higher life and to allow that the oscillations of the universe penetrate in
nujetra existence human singular. And the musicians should toss the bases for the arrival
of a higher human being even buried in us to -place the curpo todo,hasta the smallest
parts, in vibration state so that everything ends up being more receptive and looser and
it can perceive the vibrations of the highest conscience. I can experience the disapproval
ahead of time with which you will read this open letter". it doesn't bother me.
Anyway, it would be very bad that not at least tuvierán the insinuation that in their
best moments you act for intuition and that they are the possibilities of a superior
existence what makes them remain alive. You would not want to continue living if they made
the blunt senses. On the other hand, they should want to acquire bigger conscience of the
world and their why and their perhaps. And they should know that our flaws and our
imperfections are only signs that we are ascending, high toward that future that is
constantly in us -that that is the súper-conscience, taking us up, more and more high.
Us the musicians have received a great power to light with chords
the fire of the elebarse yearning. Outside of ourselves. Let us be careful of not losing
this power. Not alone it is important that the musicians try to reach the highest heights,
but rather the field of the vibration that surrounds them is also so strong, so
on-electric that anyone that penetrates in this field rises with the musicians.
Let us participate therefore in the humanity's great revolution,
since we really know what we really want. It is worthwhile to be played the own life when
it is in game. But no longer voucher the penacuando committed partial truths, private
groups, national problems or problems political unidimencionales is only. That it doesn't
dominate us the idea that there is some class of individual validity in a French
Revolution, Vietnamese, checks, Russian or African. The only thing that
counts is the world youth's revolution in the man's pro of the highest thing. Nothing else
that this. The highest man must be born of the destruction, of the explosion of atoms, of
closing corrupted frontiers, but only of the growing conscience that the humanity is
single body, and that the whole body is sick and disabled, while there is one alone of its
hit members, wounded, ultrajaod or eliminated.
The battle -and a battle is unavoidable - it will be hard, since
those that are in the power have lost its faith in the humanity. They believe that they
are the elects because the situation is such that they have the means physical pra to hold
the power. They have the dogmas and the moral, political systems and religious that use to
judge and to order to the weakest at your disposal. But in fact, they are the prisoners of
their own reason that it divides everything to be able to understand and to control to the
world.
Therefore, the engineers of the reason will lose in last analysis
their wars non saints because they have tripes and they don't have any súper it makes
aware of the highest man that their acciones. We are inspires governed for general of the
army, financial magnates, statesmen, official of party, religious fanatic, leaders
groupals and specialists in administration. How another thing can expect from the world I
lower these circumstances?
But let us begin from it lines her of departure: from ourselves. And
when we have acquired the highest conscience we will no longer need to be governed".
then we will obtain the saints' advice -no the saints of the church but the spirits that
serve the whole humanity that they have acquired a conscience universl that goes beyond
the religion difference and of race and that it doesn't confuse universality with
uniformity.
What does have quever all this with the music? Today what interresq
is the tonality. if we understand this, we will also make true music that makes that this
entirety one can know.