Stockhausen Plus-Minus

[black_keys]

Hi , I heard lately about Stockhausen plus minus , and I got the score from the web and tried to read it but didnt understand anything , is this a piece for the piano or  ? Can anyone explain ? its not that important to me but just for curiousity  

[nikolasideris]

In order for someone to explain such a score they should have studied it extensively. There are instructions in the score (as far as I know) in German and English, so if you read carefully enough, you should be able to tell what's going on more or less...

BTW, if I may say so, Stockhausen died very recently and this work was composed in 63 I believe. This means that it's still not copyright free... Just saying...

[j_menz]

Try the wikipedia entry on it for some basic background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus-Minus_(Stockhausen)

If you want to go further after reading that, check out some of the references given there, or get a recording (or, given the nature of the work, a lot of recordings since they'll all be different).

Health warning: Stockhausen can rot the brain!

[black_keys]

Well , I readed the wikipedia article and I think its a piece that help composers to compose (?) , but nothing clear , i mean how it works  ?

Btw your right  i got headaches when i tried to read the instructions and understand them