Maybe everything is closer than we experience. Maybe I hit it right on the nail. In Stockhausen's music I get reassured that this indeed is true, on some higher level of existence. Those four groups, placed around the room, also each contain a mixed choir of eight to twelve singers. The text was composed, says Stockhausen , according to purely musical qualities.
Audible words occur at some instances, in the form of names of people.
In a commentary from the world premiere Stockhausen stresses that there is no story, no continuation through causality here, but each moment stands by itself. Incidentally, only in later years, in the 1990s, has there been any substantial occurrence of Feldman CD releases, but now they are numerous, on, for example, Hat Art and Mode . Now, this is philosophy, and there is lots of philosophy, lots of thought, introspection, and reflection, behind Stockhausen 's music. It is hard, painstaking, methodical work, according to a plan, combined with a flow of philosophical thought and a deep intuition, that lead to the outstanding works of Karlheinz Stockhausen . It is a true pleasure that the composer also is publishing so many texts for the interested public to study, in which the philosophical quality of the works of Stockhausen are clearly discernable.