Kontakte - Reflections of Innovative Processes in Science and Technology in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Early Electronic Music (1952-1960).

The following article will give an overview of the interdependence of aesthetic and scientific/tehnical developments in German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's early works of electronic music. It is an outline of the major steps in his artistic evolution between the works "Etude (Musique concrete)" and "Kontakte", their relation to innovations in sychoacoustic and sound-studio technology as well as the impact, that the works from that period had on the fundamental changes in musical aesthetics during the course of the 20th century.