Music for Spaces
Sculpting Sound. Modern technology means that composers can make music come from any direction for the listener; some feel that they are actually sculpting sound. Composer Trevor Wishart records sounds and then creates a new sonic soundstage which has its own characters, scenery and acoustics.
Karlheinz Stockhausen created a piece which needs four helicopters, camera crews, a quartet, a performance hall and the whole city of Amsterdam.