These melodies, progressions and rythms you hear are not there, especially with stockhausen, as he made that absence his main point. It's the same if you talk about seeing structures in old terrestrial tv noise patterns.
Serialism does not mean non-melodic. Procedural creation of music does not mean the melodies and rhythms "don't exist". If anything, they're more there than they are in traditional music.
If anything, they're more there than
they are in traditional music.
Exactly. What makes modern classical music so disturbing to those socialised on pop music is the absence of endless repetition that is the true essence of pop. It's the same if you talk about seeing
structures in old terrestrial tv noise
patterns.
Noise has plenty of patterns and structure, but it doesn't get repeated. Similar with modern classical music.