About CD 74

To synchronize themselves, the 5 synthesizer players for SUNDAY FAREWELL need the same 5 click-tracks as the 5 groups of HOCH-ZEITEN for Choir and for Orchestra. These click-tracks comprise pulses in the different tempi plus my voice as I synchronously count the beats and say the bar numbers. The pitches of the pulses are quasi identical to the pitches of the score.

CDs of the 5 individual click-tracks may be ordered. These click-tracks are also recorded synchronously on tracks 1–5 of an 8-track tape. On the 6th track, the voice of Kathinka Pasveer announces each page number.

Copies of this 8-track tape are also available.

There were numerous requests to include a stereo mix of these click-tracks together with the recording of the 5 synthesizers on CD 74.

Stockhausen, 2005