Stockhausen chaotic music and communism
'Dr. Trey notes that music has lost its way since the nineteenth century. It has changed from earlier eras—the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic epochs (1600-1900)—to trends starting in early 1900's. These earlier eras spanning 300 years represent the pinnacle of classical music in the West and are based on higher principles and values. Composers such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Stockhausen composed music from a listener's perspective as if experimenting with noise.- from an Epoch Times interview with Dr. Torsten Trey, German medical practioner and oboeist with the New York based Divine Arts Performing Orchestra.
When this chaotic music appeared, atomic bombs, communism and cold war also surfaced. He believes this chaotic music in no small way contributes to the chaos in modern times. Destructive political movements, such as communism, thrived by killing people in its own society.
Europe boasted excellent philosophers and scholars when classical principles were followed. When music lost its classical values, chaos developed in societies and so for 100 years, music has been struggling to find direction'
Now read about music, acid and the collapse of communism.
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When this chaotic music appeared, atomic bombs, communism and cold war also surfaced. He believes this chaotic music in no small way contributes to the chaos in modern times.
Remarkable - the Communist Manifesto (1848) was (apparently) influenced by Romantic Music, which was based on "higher principles and values." I guess that the chaotic music of the twentieth century just perverted the whole thing.
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2008/03/special-comment-on-music-history.html
Blah blah blah civilization collapsed when tonality did blah blah blah. How freakin' boring a premise that is.
He's a Falun Gong advocate, so he's not exactly playing with a full deck.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2922644
Google - 'Falun Gong divine performing arts orchestra'.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/dance/reviews/story/0,,2259708,00.html