John Cage in Sofia! Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen!

The conceptual world of John Cage in his most emblematic works        

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and Construction

… the gasping time of the XXth century in this languid and exquisite sound structure by Stockhausen

...this gulp of civilization could be shared and lived with the percussion band of Dobri Paliev in Bulgaria Hall -  Sofia back in 1978.

The creation of a musical phrase and the construction of sculptural structure and form are different “programs” for visualization of ideas, knowledge and sensitivity… The same knowledge, lacking in our Academy, which was freely and systematically taught in the Conservatory from the great Bulgarian musician and composer professor Dobri Paliev.  They were seriously studying there theory – aleatorics and dodecaphony, and later during repetitions were learning techniques and forms methodology in the latest avant-garde works coming from the USA, Europe and Japan.

My Sitting Figure is created later, in 1979.  You haven’t thought that such a complete and mature plastic vision like in my debut could appear on its own on a bare lawn, have you? An occurrence of some kind, an idea?  

A quality vision could hardly be formed outside the academic environment.

I studied systematically mathematics, music and modelling. Well, and physics and foundry in the Technical University. However by way of illustration Mitko Traichev explained to a young colleague “Vesso was like the Cherry Cannon”. I disagree, but when Mitko tells you something, you should write it down so that you don’t forget it.

And now, as a dessert, my favorite work of Stockhausen – “Helicopter String Quartet”