• Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Stimmung (1968)

• • Lucia Hausladen – soprano 1
  • Lisa Fornhammar – soprano 2
  • Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger – alto
  • Roman Stalla – tenor 1
  • Konstantin Riedl – tenor 2
  • Jeffrey Herminghaus – bass
• • Performers:
  • Students, alumni and teachers at the Mozarteum University Salzburg
  • Performance and overtone coaching: Angelika Luz, Natascha Nikeprlevic, Anna Maria Hefele
  • Sound director: Ruben Hawer
  • Stagecraft and Sound: Jan Fredrich, Andi Greiml, Mathias Maedl
  • Institut für Neue Musik: Achim Bornhöft, Alexander Bauer

“Stimmung” is a piece for six vocalists and six microphones, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln. Its average length is seventy minutes.

The composition is based entirely on the production of vocal harmonics over a B Major Seven Nine Chord and uses overtones as a primary element. By gradual transformation / assimilation of 51 rhythmic models the singers weave a rhythmic polyphonic sound texture.