2025
GENKO AN 03062 SEOUL OPENING
on July 14th Heiner Goebbels opened a large scale multimedia installation at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts in Seoul ( South Korea.
large echo by the audience and in the Korean media
https://www.news1.kr/life-culture/performance-exhibition/5855478
https://woodplanet.co.kr/news/view/1065582955719311
https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20250721_0003259831
https://view.asiae.co.kr/article/2025072110391498697
https://weekly.cnbnews.com/news/article.html?no=183794
https://www.ngetnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=531383
https://www.edaily.co.kr/News/Read?newsId=02384566642236816&mediaCodeNo=257
https://www.yna.co./view/AKR20250721018900005?input=1195m
Still on daily until August 10th
Solo Recitals
In MMCA - the National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul - and at MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Arts, Busan - Heiner Goebbels performed "Walden Fragments" - short soli on prepared grand piano - in the context of the installation "Shadow-Forest" by Korean artist Go Eun Im.
Everything in PARIS
After the great response on the performances in Taiwan the large scale performance Everything That Happened And Would Happen can be seen in Europe again: June 18 to 20 @ La Villette
Sound and Videoinstallation at MOCA in BUSAN / South Korea
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary arts in Busan / South Korea opens a group exhibition on GREEN SHIVERING. including the new sound- and Videoinstallation "the fish will have to learn to walk on land" by Heiner Goebbels on April 12th. And MMCA - National Museum for Contemporary Art in Seoul announces the multimedia installation GENKO AN 03062 by Heiner Goebbels to be opening July 14th. Here a few links to the resonances in the korean press :
https://www.daljin.com/column/22757http://www.sctoday.co.kr
/news/articleView.html?idxno=44891http://www.withinnews.co.kr/news/view.html?section=190&
category=194&no=36010https://www.news1.kr/photos/7216192https://www.aaart.co.kr
/news/article.html?no=7833https://www.busan.com/view/busan
/view.php?code=2025041701075771180https://ewha.biz/549595http://www.sctoday.co.kr
Everything @ Taipei Performing Arts Center
Everything That Happened And Would Happen has used the entire double stage at the new Taipei Performing Arts Center for the first time. Two performances, and a post performance talk with Heiner Goebbels on stage and before " A Dialogue on Music, Theater and History - Decoding Heiner Goebbels' Artistic Vision" were enthusiastically recieved by the Taiwanese audience.
Eine Orakelmaschine - neues Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels. SWR / DLF Kultur
Heiner Goebbels‘ Hörstück ist eine Komposition, die gleich der Poesie der Orakel den Fragenden einen Ort für Imagination und Reflexion bietet - keinen der gesicherten Antworten. Anstelle von Gewissheiten begegnen sich gleichsam fremd wie vertraut scheinende Musik-, Sprach- und Klangwelten. Sie erzählen von der Ahnung eines verborgenen Zusammenhangs alles Lebenden und Hergestellten, Maschinellen. Geräusche aus einem stillgelegten Stahlwerk treffen auf Stimmen heimischer wie fremder Fauna, historische Liedgutaufnahmen, auf elektroakustische Improvisationen der Band ‚The Mayfield‘ und Texte.
Heiner Goebbels' radio play is a composition that, like the poetry of the oracles, offers the questioner a place for imagination and reflection - not for certain answers. Instead of certainties, music, language and sound worlds that seem both strange and familiar meet. They tell of the intuition of a hidden connection between everything living and manufactured, everything mechanical. Sounds from a disused steelworks meet the voices of local and foreign fauna, historical song recordings, electro-acoustic improvisations by the band 'The Mayfield' and texts.
Eine Orakelmaschine Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels Produktion: SWR / DLR 2025
mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Weltkulturerbes Völklinger Hütte Ca. 52 Min.
Mit Originaltönen von Hannah Arendt, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Marguerite Duras u.v.a.
2024
2024 > 2025
This passing year 2024 has been very busy with many concerts, performances and lectures all over europe and it finished on the first weekend of december with a concert of The Mayfield in Switzerland and two performances of Songs of Wars I Have Seen in Vancouver / Canada.
For 2025 Heiner Goebbels announces a new radioplay called Eine Orakelmaschine (with SWR and DLF) besides more concerts of Surrogate Cities, The Mayfield a.o. (see calender), performances of Everything That Happened And Would Happen in Taipei and Paris and new installations in Asia.
Heiner Goebbels: Contre l'œuvre d'art totale
Translated by Isabelle Kranabetter and Aleksi Barriere for Collection : Écrits de compositeurs
Philharmonie de Paris, 432 pages
Le compositeur et metteur en scène allemand Heiner Goebbels (né en 1952) est une figure majeure de la création contemporaine. À l’intersection de la théâtralité de la musique et de la musicalité du théâtre, ses spectacles exaltent l’hétérogénéité des voix, des genres et des médiums. « Faire de la musique avec les moyens de la scène », comme l’imaginait Arnold Schönberg.
Depuis ses débuts de musicien et de créateur radiophonique, jusque dans ses rôles plus récents de curateur et d’enseignant, Heiner Goebbels est en dialogue constant avec les artistes et auteurs qui ont influencé son travail : Hanns Eisler, Heiner Müller, Elias Canetti, Gertrude Stein, mais aussi, côté francophone, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot ou Paul Valéry.
Ce recueil est la plus vaste anthologie de ses textes écrits au fil des quarante dernières années, et la première en français. Tour à tour carnet de bord, journal rétrospectif, espace de réflexion sur les pratiques artistiques, dont la sienne, Contre l’œuvre d’art totale
constitue un manifeste esthétique et politique : pour l’abolition des hiérarchies entre les arts, pour la liberté d’invention des spectateurs-auditeurs.
Intakt CD 426 / 2024
The instrumentalists of The Mayfield have together created the music to the large scale performance Everything that happened and would happen by Heiner Goebbels – a music theatre piece on Europe as a historical and contemporary ‘construction site’. The band is named after the Mayfield Depot, a vast disused railway station in Manchester, in which they rehearsed and created the work. It inspired the aesthetics of the music. The instrumentation is dedicated to a coexistence of acoustic and electronic sources, ranging from percussion, as the earliest and universal source of musical expression, to birdcalls, saxophones and prepared grand piano and to Ondes Martenot, one of the first electronic instruments. An invented electric guitar added with digital sensors bridges the gap between these different sonic universes. The Mayfield music results in soundscapes between controlled noise and ‘musique concrête instrumentale’. At La Muse en Circuit – the Parisian recording studio designed specifically for electro-acoustic music that Luc Ferrari established in 1982 – the musicians recorded 95 improvised pieces. Willi Bopp, who has worked closely with Goebbels for 35 years, subsequently created a collage of those selections, which were further winnowed and sequenced into the seamless 16-track selection featured on this remarkable album. „The collective’s brand of free improvisation is stunning, a liquid form of electro-acoustic music of uncommon physicality, depth, and dynamics that sounds like little else in the realm of contemporary experimental music“, writes Peter Margasak in the liner notes.