Stockhausen stated that his listeners had told him his electronic music gave them an experience of outer space, sensations of flying, or being in a fantastic dream world More recently, Stockhausen turned to producing electronic music in his own studio in Kürten, his last work in the genre being Cosmic Pulses 2007.

Although there are no hard and fast boundaries, broadly speaking we can identify the experimental and classical styles: electronic art music, musique concrète, acousmatic music from approximately 1945 to the present; the industrial music and synth pop styles of the 1980s; styles that are primarily intended for dance such as italo disco, techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass aka jungle, electronic jazz aka Nujazz and styles that are intended more as experimental styles or for home listening such as electronica, glitch, Breakcore and trip hop.