In 1975 the highly esteemed musicians of Les Percussions de Strasbourg confront a huge birdman doll on the stage of the Royen Festival, taking a series of music boxes out of the creature’s belly one by one. The reason for this is Musik im Bauch: the latest composition by the inimitable avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, the structure of which he claims came to him in a dream. Just under 50 years later, the still equally superlative company engages the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen for a contemporary take on Stockhausen’s enigmatic creation. Steen-Andersen thereby leaves the score untouched. Instead he deploys a number of scenic interventions, thus exploring what that dream might have looked like. Uncanniness guaranteed!