page_title: Pole (Stockhausen)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pole (Stockhausen) / History
caption_attribution_description: Korean Pavilion. April 1970, Osaka Expo'70.
context_page_description: Pole, for two performers with shortwave radio receivers and a sound projectionist, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1970. It is Number 30 in the catalogue of the composer's works.
context_section_description: Pole was composed in Bali in February 1970, at that time under the working title of Duo (Stockhausen 1978, 152). Between 14 March and 14 September 1970, Pole was played and sung over a thousand times at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, in daily performances by twenty different musicians including the composer (Stockhausen 2009, 260). The score is dedicated to Harald Bojé and Péter Eötvös, who played in the majority of the early performances, and who also made a number of radio recordings and two commercially released recordings of the piece (Stockhausen 1978, 152).
caption: German Pavilion at Expo '70, where Pole was performed in the spherical auditorium (out of view to the right)
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