Heiner Müller und Einsturende Neubauten

As promised, albeit a bit late, here is a performance of Die Hamletmaschine (a play about Hamlet) by Heiner Müller as interpreted by Einsturzende Neubauten. And here is a pdf of an English translation of Müller’s text.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyGD3M_TRs]

Einstürzende Neubauten is a German industrial band that has been performing since 1980. One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments (wikipedia). Here’s a nice link to the origins of industrial music, which shares a lot of names with other avant-garde movements, especially performance art.