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As many of you know, Kraftwerk is another one of the many groups who says that they were greatly influenced by the music of Stockhausen.
Have they ever actually said that they were? (Genuine question!).
I don't think so, but I just wanted to pass on the text without personal comments. What I know for sure is that Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay from Can were students of Stockhausen in the sixties. But tell Klaus Schulze that he is in any way influenced by Stockhausen (as some interviewers did) and he will tell you that this is plain nonsense. But anyway, Stockhausen has never been very interested in pop music, although recently some journalist had the silly idea to send him some recordings by techno artists to ask him what advice he could give to his "younger colleagues". As you would expect, the advice was always something like: "Stop using these regular rhythms" and "Stop using these conventional major/minor harmonies", which of course for pop musicians comes close to saying: "Stop making music altogether"!
It seemed as if they could have gone on talking with each other forever, but finally had to stop for questions from the audience. Moog and Stockhausen agreed to keep in touch to discuss Stockhausen's many complaints about the synthesizers presently on the market and Moog's development of a new analogue synthesizer which could quiet allot of those complaints.
Phat filters? :-D
I read an interview with Stockhausen on this topic some years ago. What he seems to be primarily looking for in a synthesizer is not the "sound" as such but the possibilities to edit given sounds as radically as possible and to "compose" sounds from scratch. This is why he hates the ROMplers that became popular in the 90s, while he likes devices like the early DX models and sophisticated analogue synthesizers. I'm quite sure, though, that he is not very well informed about the current market situation, as there are now some instruments which come close to his conceptions. OK, as this is the Kraftwerk list, I don't want to go into further details.