Seventeenth Hour: Nebadon Klang (Stockhausen)
interior of christuskirche in cologne, both seventeenth , eighteenth hours premiered in may 2010
nebadon, horn , electronic music (layers 15, 14, 13 cosmic pulses) 2007 (21 mins., 40 secs.). work number 97. specified colour hks 10 (red-orange) (stockhausen 2010h, cover , ii).
nebadon given premiere on 8 may 2010 christine chapman, horn, , hannah weirich, sound direction, @ christuskirche in cologne, part of musiktriennale köln (gimpel 2010; stockhausen 2010h, i).
nebadon local universe earth (urantia) belongs (urantia foundation 1955, 165).
each of nebadon s 24 sections announced word or phrase written score stockhausen. these isolated words, in mixture of english , german, begin form connected narrative in last 7 lines (original in german):
ten million inhabited worlds
in superuniverse
orvonton
and central universe
havona
rotates around sagittarius
holy nebadon
this text recorded , mixed electronic music kathinka pasveer. horn amplified , projected during performance on 8 loudspeaker groups, surround audience in circle. solo part notated flexibly, in order allow performer great freedom in forming groups, notes, , figures (stockhausen 2010h, , iv).
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