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Berlin composer, 91

Berlin composer, 91

The Akademie der Künste has announced the death of Erhard Grosskopf, a prolific composer who described himself as ‘an architect who builds a house for music’. In 1971 he created the first spatial composition Hörmusik for the Berlin Philharmonic. Most recently in 2019 he produced RaumKlangSkulptur for three string quartets.

He utilizes so-called sound processes: layers of differing lengths that are looped and stacked according to mathematical principles, resulting in circling harmonic constellations that come to an end only when their end points coincide

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