*2022 Stock.* Sternklang features a roaming studio recording, documenting the five spacially-separated electro-acoustic chamber groups of Sternklang, a harmonically-modulating piece structurally similar to the all-vocal Stimmung. Some soloists are also highlighted in the mix as they migrate from one group to another. This 2 CD recording features members of the English new music groups Intermodulation and Gentle Fire, as well as Annette Meriweather (vox), Harald Bojé (synth), Michael Vetter (vox, recorder), Markus Stockhausen (tpt, synth) and Suzanne Stephens (clr, synth), etc. Sternklang was commissioned by Sender Freies Berlin and was first performed one summer night in 1971 in the English Garden near the Academy of the Arts, in Berlin. Sternklang, meaning "Star Sounds", is kind of like an exploded Stimmung, Stockhausen's piece for 6 vocalists based on one chord. If Stimmung is a solar system with 6 planetary voices revolving around a single harmony, then Sternklang is 5 star systems (each with 4 planets and their own harmony), sharing a single pitch and held together by one percussionist on tam-tam (gong). The 5 groups of mixed voices and instruments (usually electronically modulated) are separated across a large park area and play Stimmung-type combinations but are synchronized by musical signals. In addition, sometimes a Model (vocal pattern) is transferred from one group to another by sound runners, who sing the Model as they leave one group and join another, while being escorted by a torch-bearer.  In the middle of this very long piece all 5 groups have a collective "intuitive music interlude", where they perform "Aufwärts" (Upwards), one of the pieces from Aus den sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days), Stockhausen's text-based free improvisation collection. - Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com