Scrapes, mallets hit right note for composer Lachenmann

From Reuters:

The music of pioneering modernist German composer Helmut Lachenmann will be showcased in London this weekend, allowing listeners to hear violin bows scraping sideways on strings, percussionists using scrub brushes and pianists hitting strings with mallets. Lachenmann, 74, who will attend the weekend at London’s Southbank Center , said he felt compelled to create new musical sounds from established instruments, in what he calls “musique concrete instrumentale,” to help music from the corruption of classical culture by the Nazis during World War Two.

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