Intuitive music

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Intuitive music is a form of musical improvisation based on instant creation in which fixed principles or rules may or may not have been given. It is a type of process music where instead of a traditional music score, verbal or graphic instructions and ideas are provided to the performers. The concept was introduced in 1968 by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (Stockhausen [n.d.]; Bergstrøm-Nielsen 1997), with specific reference to the collections of text-notated compositions Aus den sieben Tagen (1968) and Für kommende Zeiten (1968–71).

Intuitive music may appear to be synonymous with free improvisation or with improvised playing within open composition forms, but the collectively intuitive aspect, the emancipation from known music genres and the meditative dimension are especially emphasized by Stockhausen.

[edit] Other meanings

  • Within New Age Music, intuitive music may refer to a soloistic music with a freely flowing character.
  • In commercial language, intuitive music may mean electronic equipment that allows for a flexible, real-time based use.

[edit] References

  • Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl. 1997. "Festlegen, Umreißen, Andeuten, Hervorrufen: Analytisches zu den Textkompositionen von Karlheinz Stockhausen." MusikTexte: Zeitschrift für Neue Musik no. 72 (November): 13-16. [1](German) [2](English)
  • Kohl, Jerome. 1978. “Intuitive Music and Serial Determinism: An Analysis of Stockhausen’s Aus den sieben Tagen.” In Theory Only 3, no. 2 (March): 7–19.[3](English)
  • Kurtz, Michael. 1988. "Aus den Sieben Tagen: Points de vue biographique et historique sur les compositions-textes de mai 1968." In Karlheinz Stockhausen (programme booklet). Paris: Contrechamps/Festival d'Automne à Paris. [4](French)
  • Nakaji, Masatsune. 1994. “Karlheinz Stockhausens Intuitive Musik: c'est Le Dispositif Chaosmique de Transformation”. Genesis (The Bulletin of Kyoto University of Art and Design) vol. 1. HTML versions 1995 [5](Japanese) & (French)
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz. [n.d.] "Questions and Answers to Intuitive Music", CD booklet, Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 14 A-G (English edition).