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The mesmerising innovations of Heiner Goebbels
SIMON DUFF introduces the German avant-garde composer
INSPIRATIONAL CONCEPTS: Heiner Goebbels
[ECM Records]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Heiner Goebbels
A House of Call
(ECM)
HEINER GOEBBELS is a contemporary German theatre director and avant-garde composer. One of his most noted productions is Stifter’s Dinge (Founder’s Things) — a multimedia poetic technology performance piece, first performed in 2007, inspired by the nature writing of the 19th-century Austrian romantic writer Adalbert Stifter.
An extraordianry 80-minute work produced by the Swiss theatre company Theatre Vidy-Lausanne in association with Artangel in London for a 2008 production. It featured a multitude of invented instruments and cutting edge audio production with the score released by ECM.
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