Carsten Nicolai
Jennifer Shryane, in her book "Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music. Evading do-re-mi" (2011), explores how the themes and threads of Bargeld's work with Neubauten show even greater variation and experimentation in his performance work outside of the band. For example, the range extends from his surreal, electronic Dadaist-cabaret Rede and collaborations with Alva Noto to his expert direction of Coetzee’s "Warten auf die Barbaren" ("Waiting for the Barbarians") for the Salzburg Festival in 2005, where he employed multi-layered symbolism through an ice-white setting and an interplay of voices, screams and noise.