Recently in this magazine, Holger Czukay recalled attending the first performance, in Bremen in 1968, of Kurzwellen (“short waves”), Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work for piano, electronium (an early monophonic synthesiser), tam-tam gong, viola and four short-wave radio receivers.
Read the rest of my review of Holger Czukay’s recent show at the Roundhouse in this week’s New Statesman.