Some months ago I was listening to a BBC radio broadcast from Berlin. The aim of the programme was to shine a beam into the darker recesses of German musical life and hopefully illuminate some of the activities taking place on the city’s cultural margins. For the most part the producers of the show were successful in garnering a collection of revealing interviews with a variety of artists currently ploughing a furrow in the often lonely field of experimental music. However, when they took a moment to dip an inquiring toe into the small pool of ‘noise artists’ that call the city home they were not met with the cooperation that they had erstwhile enjoyed. One particular composer who...