How Pink Floyd Applied Stockhausen's Avant-Garde Techniques on Dark Side of the Moon (and How the Beatles Did It Differently on Revolution 9)

The most interesting takeaway is that Pink Floyd didn’t just borrow Karlheinz Stockhausen’s tape-loop and spatialization tricks—they turned them into a tightly sequenced narrative, whereas the Beatles used similar tools for pure, disorienting abstraction. Stockhausen’s influence on The Dark Side of the Moon is everywhere if you know where to look: the multi-tracked cash-register loops in “Money,” the bubbling