ISBN : 9782296107113
TOWARDS A NEW PERCEPTION: THE MUSIC THEATRE OF HEINER GOEBBELS1
Stephanie Schwarz
The auditory perception of the listenermust be just as important for compositional
thoughts as everything else.2
With this programmatic principle, Heiner Goebbels marks his position
as composer in the avant-garde tradition in which all aspects of perception
are at the center of aesthetic considerations. The listener's changing
position in the musical concept of John Cage or the idea of theatre
formed by Bertolt Brecht carries out a new state of material - sound as
well as word - and brings into question the audience's responsibility to
aesthetic genesis.3