Very sad news. I first heard his music in a school music lesson in the early seventies. I'd been messing around with sounds on tape for a while, but never realised that it could be accepted as music. Hearing Stockhausen validated what I had been doing. He changed my life.

One of the greats. A cuckoo, but I love him.

Eyes looking like the ones of a possessed man usually reveal that the flame of intelligence burns high.
Hats off to him.

A prime 'restructuralist,' as Braxton would say... A monumental loss. I don't know where I'd be if I had not discovered Kontakte at an early age.

Stockhausen's music didn't need a lot explaining to my ears. But what did need explaining was ... how did he manage to have six children by two different wives, and then live out the remainder of his life with two additionally different women simultaneously in the same household?!

The man was the M-A-C-K.

Er, odd segue from the 'MACK' comment, but i just noticed that Ike Turner died.

The bad behavior of his personal life aside, the dude was one of the great guitar players...and an under-credited innovator in the development of rock'n'roll. There's a great CD that collects a lot of instrumental sides that really shows off his biting, spiky attack and cutting tone. Marc Ribot always acknowledged his influence, which you can hear. I saw Turner back a few years ago (2002) and he was really on top of things, playing with verve and authority...

So even though I'd say both ol'Iky and Herr Karlheinz were hardly exemplary human beings (shall we dig up that Braxton quote again?), they definitely left us with some material to chew on for quite some time... Grazie.

"...how did he manage to have six children by two different wives, and then live out the remainder of his life with two additionally different women simultaneously in the same household?!..."

1) His real name was Al-Heinz
2) Viagra