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of the body (using mantra technique)  Alphabet für Liège, for
soloists and duos, is a composition (or a musical installation)
by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 36 in the
composer's catalog of works. A performance of it lasts four
hours.  The fundamental idea underlying Alphabet is the notion
that sound vibrations can affect both living beings and
inanimate matter (Maconie 2005, 341). There are thirteen scenes,
or musical images, each illustrating the physical effects of
sound, ranging from making acoustic vibrations visible to a
demonstration of Asian mantra techniques. These ideas were
developed in conversations with the British biophysicist and
lecturer on mystical aspects of sound vibration Jill Purce, who
also called Stockhausen's attention to the work of Hans Jenny
(Kurtz 1992, 192–93; Jenny 1967). In a radio interview three
months before the premiere, Stockhausen expl