ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the first comprehensive examination in English of the work of the Berlin-based music collective Einstrzende Neubauten. It contributes to the re-evaluation of European, non-English language contemporary music in particular, Deutsche Rock. The chapter aims at a various readership including teachers, students and researchers of experimental noise-music, Artaudian practice and post-war German popular music as well as the followers of the band. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented or otherwise participated in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. The use of these secondary media was necessary because Einstrzende Neubauten's performance style has always been one which focused the presence of the energized and theatrical dancing, screaming body with an awareness of extreme effort, risk and painful celebration. The reconstruction, shaped from bootlegs, photographs, news reports and recalled experiences of the original, created tantalizing and fleeting glimpses of this most Artaudian of performances.
