An awfully big adventure  The Hitler Youth, a Stasi jail, a
Corsican nudist camp ... he's been in them all. Hans-Joachim
Roedelius, pioneer of Germany's experimental music scene, tells
Dorian Lynskey about his extraordinary life Hans-Joachim
Roedelius Roedelius... made his live solo debut with a home-made
flute and an alarm clock. Photo: David Levene  In the spring of
1977, Brian Eno was living in Berlin, working with David Bowie
on his seminal albums Low and Heroes when he journeyed into
Lower Saxony to visit a remote farmstead called Forst. Two years
earlier he had seen Cluster, the German duo comprising Hans-
Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, perform in Hamburg and now
he was finally taking them up on their invitation to see first-
hand how they worked.  Surrounded by dense woodland, Forst had
been transformed into an idyllic artistic community, where
Cluster and their fellow musicians spent their days chopping
wood and renovating buildings and their nights making music.
Cluster and Eno jammed together i