Music for Unborn Children, subtitled A Harmonic Experience, is a piece for four tamburas devised by Peter Pannke. The Indian drone lute, known for its spatial overtone sound, is used here in an experimental way, in unusual tunings and with four instruments arranged in a circle. The result is a state of harmonic floating that Schott compares to the experience of a child in the womb.

Pannke, born in 1946, is a German musician, writer, radio producer and sarangi player who trained in North Indian dhrupad singing with the Mallik and Dagar families, a path that took him to Varanasi, Delhi, Vrindavan and Darbhanga, and for twenty years directed a world music programme at Sender Freies Berlin. He later founded Troubadours United, bringing together Turkish, Syrian and Indian musicians, and told the story of his dhrupad training in the memoir Singers Die Twice. The four tamburas are played by Mechthild Kampik, Tina Rusvay, Werner Durand and Pannke himself. Durand, born in Karlsruhe in 1954, is a composer, instrument builder and performer of experimental music. The recording was made at Radio Bremen in 1982.

The work is in two parts, Teil I and Teil II, of about 23 and 24 minutes. The tambura is normally the drone instrument behind voice or melody; here four of them, tuned unusually and placed in a circle, make up the whole piece, and Schott speaks of a startling range of sounds rising from their overtones. The electronic realisation is credited to Walter Bachauer.

Bachauer was a composer, musicologist, journalist and radio producer who worked at RIAS in Berlin and founded the Metamusik festival in West Berlin, held in 1974, 1976 and 1978. In the early 1980s he also recorded electronic albums under the name Clara Mondshine; he died in 1989. The cover reproduces a painting by Manfred Scharpf. The same label later issued Pannke's Morungen project, which he conceived and produced, and the dhrupad record Bidur Mallik & Sons, for which he wrote the notes.

CD, Wergo SM 1074-50, released in 1988.