Stockhausen is a German electronic music pioneer who has had a great influence on the development of contemporary music. The experimental and avant-garde compositions of musicians like Stockhausen played a significant role in establishing German electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon.
The book focuses on one of Stockhausen's pieces called "Song of the Youth."
This piece is a stereophonic composition with two main channels, where electronic sounds, pitch, and lyrics are broken down into the smallest units and then fused together.The book uses the speech analysis computer software ‘Praat’ to visualize the fragmented lyrics, pitch values, decibel values, and other information by creating illustrations, aiming to visually show the abstract world of electronic music, which can be difficult for people to understand.
