I’m not sure, but at some point within the first 15 minutes of Little Match Girl, I scribbled in my notebook, “Oh for fuck’s sake.” The reason was not the jarring symphony of noise that fell from high ...

Sunday is the 70th birthday of Helmut Lachenmann, one of the most fearsome creative intellects in new music. The same evening, at the Huddersfield contemporary music festival, Germany's pre-eminent ...

Ok team, hold on to your hats: how's this for a start to the day, a concept to get your head and your ears around? "Musique concrète instrumentale". Boom. That's just one of the ideas that you need to ...

'Helmut Lachenmann's music is as much therapy as art, reacquainting musicians with their instruments, audiences with their ears. And it delivers this therapy through discovery.' Who knew that so much ...

Helmut Lachenmann’s compositions probably aren’t for everyone. The composer even likened a concert of his music to thrill seeking. “In Switzerland, people pay 500 euros just to make bungee jumping,” ...

When you wake up in the middle of the night thinking theres an intruder in the house your ears agonise and reach out into the pitch-dark silence. Thats the only way to listen to the music of Helmut ...