Karlheinz Stockhausen included a larger-than-life-size puppet of a bird man, automatically shifting between musicians, a glockenspiel, sound plates, a humming top and, above all, three music boxes in his score, which contains more stage directions than music in the usual context. For Musik im Bauch, the composer had a set of twelve music boxes built with his Tierkreis melodies, which were composed for this purpose and can also be performed independently; the random selection of three of these boxes determines the respective performance of Musik im Bauch.
moreIn 1975, Les Percussions de Strasbourg premiered Karlheinz Stockhausen's scenic composition Musik im Bauch. At the Berlin festival Maerz Musik, the ensemble presented the work in a visually and musically impressive new production by Simon Steen-Andersen.
