Pioneering avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died on Wednesday. Stockhausen's experimental electro-acoustic music influenced everyone from John Cage to the Beatles, David Bowie to Sonic Youth. He was 79.
Karlheinz Stockhausen, RIP
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