@manikrathee

His friend Bobby kinda stole it:

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

@916string @manikrathee

And Basquiat was nowhere near the first. Stockhausen started writing about this idea in the 50s. Here's a somewhat wordy article from 1970 with some of these ideas:

https://monoskop.org/images/c/c3/Stockhausen_Karlheinz_1972_1989_Four_Criteria_of_Electronic_Music.pdf

I'm fairly certain that Ussachevsky also wrote about this at about the same time, but I can't find much of his writing online...

@TomSwirly @manikrathee

Nice one, thanks! @Packbat and I were discussing who said it first. I had no idea.

@916string @manikrathee @Packbat I'm not even sure that Stockhausen was the first! I simply read everything he wrote at some point.

He was one of the very greatest composers of the twentieth century. If you ever get a chance to see bits of his seven day long opera Aus Licht, it will blow your mind, even if you hate opera and avant garde music...

@TomSwirly @manikrathee @Packbat

I never heard of him until your mention. I looked into him a bit. I'm listening to Gruppen, pour trois orchestres now. Fascinating stuff!