Heinz-Erich Goedecke (Germany): trombone, gongs, didgeridoo, Tibetan horns.
Heinz-Erich Goedecke has been on the German music scene since the early eighties. In almost two decades he has expanded his instrumental arsenal from a single trombone, which he commands masterfully, using the most refined playing techniques (circular breathing, multiphonics and so on), to the didgeridoo, the most ancient instrument of the Australian Aborigines and extremely popular today among European avant-gardists, Tibetan horns, gongs, percussion, and, successfully deployed in solo performances, the noise of a short-wave radio and pre-recorded tape backing.
Goedecke's works have been performed by chamber groups and orchestras. Over the years he has also assembled under his own name, or taken part in, a large number of varied projects and workshops, from solo to big band, and has played with such outstanding masters as Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Conny Bauer, Barry Guy, Louis Moholo, Jay Oliver, Fred Van Hove and Vladimir Tarasov. Beyond working with musicians, Goedecke enters into creative relationships even with plants. One such marginal project, called "Substance", demonstrated the interaction of the musician with a small plantation connected through sensors to highly sensitive amplification equipment, which sounded as an equal participant in the musical dialogue, commenting on and complementing Goedecke's own trombone playing.