Karlheinz Stockhausen and Rikrit Tiravanija, Oktophonie (Installation View), via Park Avenue Armory

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work explores the constantly shifting nature of both music composition and performance in the 21st century, utilizing recording consoles, synthesizers and mixing boards as devices to explore the human relationship with technology and composition while creating imersive, powerful works.

Karlheinz Stockhausen and Rikrit Tiravanija’s Oktophonie (Installation View), via Park Avenue Armory (more…)

The Park Avenue Armory’s production of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Oktophonie opened this week, featuring a unique, immersive set design by artist Rikrit Tiravanija that places the viewer on an otherworldly lunar landscape.  The 70 minute performance asks audience members to sit on the floor in all white robes for the sonorous, droning soundscape , has already sold out all of its shows for its weeklong run. (more…)