Intuitive music

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1) A form of musical improvisation based on instant creation in which some quite few fixed principles or rules may have been given. Usually traditional music writing is not employed, but instead verbal or graphic instructions and ideas. The concept was introduced 1968 by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and related to the work collections Aus den Sieben Tagen (1968) and Für kommende Zeiten (1970) comprising 31 different pieces in all.

Intuitive music may appear synonymous with free improvisation or with improvised playing within open composition forms. However, the collectively intuitive aspect, the emancipation from known music genres and the meditative dimension are emphasized especially by Stockhausen.

2) Within New Age Music, the term can signify a soloistic music with a freely flowing character.

3) The term may appear in commercial lauguage referring to electronic equipment allowing for a flexible, real-time based use.