Inside Light Tickets

Part 1 performances are Wednesday, June 5 at 7pm and Wednesday, June 12 at 7pm
Part 2 performances are Thursday, June 6 at 7pm and Thursday, June 13 at 7pm
Marathon performances are Saturday, June 8 at 4pm and Friday, June 14 at 6:30pm

Seating will be on cushions and backjacks directly on the floor. Participants can move freely throughout the space.

Part 1: All-Stockhausen Program Montags-Gruss Unsichtbare Chöre from Donnerstag Mittwochs-Gruss 2 hours and 30 minutes with intermission Part 2: All-Stockhausen Program Freitags-Gruss Freitags-Abschied 2 hours and 45 minutes with intermission Marathon 6 hours and 30 minutes, including intermissions and a one-hour dinner break

“As the hours pass, you are drawn into the ritual … your whole life has become Stockhausen.” —The Financial Times (UK)

“[Stockhausen’s] score, a richly layered aural experience makes a case for music’s ability to shake your bones, tickle your ears and take hold of your consciousness.” —The New York Times

Few hold as much of an esteemed role in the evolution of contemporary composition and studio technique than Karlheinz Stockhausen. One of the most experimental and progressive composers of the 20th century, his innovations forever changed approaches to utilizing electronics in art music and the ways in which we listen. This classical renegade’s influence can still be felt today, inspiring everyone from Björk to Aphex Twin, Miles Davis to Animal Collective, and more.

His magnum opus Licht—a seven opera cycle each representing a day of the week—is an epic 29-hour work for vocal, instrumental, and electronic forces that is rarely performed given its length and the different configurations of musicians and spaces needed.

Several electronic compositions from this opus, performed by one of his original collaborators Kathinka Pasveer, are presented as two parts on separate evenings or in a full marathon with transformative lighting and video projections to fully immerse the audience in the all-encompassing, octophonic sound and surroundings. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize these works as Stockhausen so boldly envisioned in their highly-anticipated North American premieres.