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Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.



This is very interesting.
Do you have a link to the original article/interview where he first said 
it?
I would be interested to read the full original text.

JC Mendizabal
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Shawn" <highhorse@mhorse.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.


> This is what he himself said about it afterward:
>
> "At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and
> Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they
> exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined
> Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high
> degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. After
> further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan
> appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the
> designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified in
> Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal."
>
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
> www.chinapaintingmusic.com
>
> >> By "9/11 incident" did he mean the act of terror itself? And, if so,
> >> he called that "art"?
>