it was with great sadness that I read that Karlheinz Stockhausen has died. I don't know his works that well, finding some of it in the Very Weird and Needing to be in A Special Mood to Listen category.

I was in a weird mood tonight so I thought it may be a good opportunity to try the new Deutsche Grammophon online store, with its giant catalogue of DRM-free, 320kbps mp3s, including its vast store of out-of-print albums. Alas, the only offering was a mixed CD containing one Stockhausen piece sandwiched between two by György Kurtág.

Lucky enough, he has his own website and an impressive collection of mp3s and videos. This youtube video is of Kontakte, written in the 1950s.