In November 1995, "The Wire" published an article titled "Advice to Clever Children." In the process of producing the interview, a package of tapes containing music from several artists, including Aphex Twin, was sent to Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Stockhausen commented:
“I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth," which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it [wasn't] varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.”
Aphex Twin responded:
"I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: "Didgeridoo," then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to."
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