New book:
Hans Platzgumer's new book is available in bookstores now.
After years of writing and doing
researches, the arctic novel 'WEIß' was released at the Leipzig Bookfair 2008. ( Skarabaeus , 244 pages, hardcover, german language )
info on the book
booking and info for readings here
New music:
--
DEATH OF THE COMPACT DISC / TOD DER CD! - ReRelease February
2008 --
OUT NOW :
Hp.Stonji 'Piano Expeditions, Parts I - III'
(Creative Commons Release on Autark)
more....
Convertible 3 - Digipack CD, Downloads (Monkey.Music, iTunes...)
Convertible's new album, 15 songs, no electronics!
The Japanese Edition will be out on February 5th.
Info
Booking
HP.STONJI 's
second high-end electronica album ' Syntonum
'
is out on Konkord/Spezialmaterial/Bleep.com.
“.... topped with the most dramatic, mind altering waves of sound.
Crazy noises everywhere. Awesome!”
www.last.fm
pdf infos: english
- german
The strictly limited Lemniskate 10" was available through
Soulseduction distribution.
The vinyl features 12 endless grooves that Hans produced with mates like
Felix Kubin, I-Wolf, Potuznik, e.stonji, Boroff, Chronomad and others.
Writings:
- HP finished a radiodrama about the discovery of the northpole
for BR2 radio,
entitled 'Etwa 90 Grad'.
The drama combines the stories of Robert Peary, Frederick Cook and Sebastian Fehr, the protagonist of hp's new novel 'Weiß'.
- An essay of hans platzgumer about the japanese tradition of Gi Ri is out in the 'Datum' magazine and can be found here.
SOUNDTRACK
WORK:
- Currently playing:
Raffael Spregelburd's 'Die Sturheit' (director: Burkhard Kosminski, 09/05 08),
Henrik Ibsen's 'Baumeister Solness' (director: Burkhard Kosminski, 29/02 08),
Roland Schimmelpfennig's 'Start Up' (director: Burkhard Kosminski, 14/10 07),
Christoph Nußbaumeder's 'Jetzt & in Ewigkeit' (director: Burkhard Kosminski, 15/12 07)
and Albert Ostermaier's "Schwarze Minuten" at
the National Theatre Mannheim and SchauspielFrankfurt,
Kevin
Venneman's 'Beiderseits' (BR 07 , director: Ulrich Lampen).
Paulus Hochgatterer's 'Die Süße des Lebens' (SWR 07, Steffen Moratz)
and David Harrower's 'Blackbird' (SWR 07, Ulrich Lampen).
- Currently Hans is working on the music (Hp.Stonji) to his audiobook 'Etwa 90 Grad'
(fall 08, BR, dir.: Ulrich Lampen).Airplay: 14-12-08 & 15-12-08 at Bayern2 Radio.
RECENT
RADIO WORK:
The soundtrack to Albert Ostermaier's lyric book and radio drama "Polar"
(HR, Suhrkamp 2006).
Soundtracks to 'Durst' and 'Dieses Elende Leben', radio dramas for DeutschlandRadio,
2006.
Other works include
FALK RICHTER's 'Unter Eis' (NDR, 2005), 'Schiffbruch' (RadioBremen, 2005),
'BIOMETRISCHE
FREIHEIT' (ORF, 2005) and
"Van
Gogh's Letters To his Brother Theo" (available on CD on Der Hörverlag) .
-->
- List of HP's Radio Works -
soundtrack sub site
Hans Platzgumer is a member of the Jury for the German PrixHörverlag.
Also he is curating the annual ABC* Bert Brecht Festival in Augsburg,
and teaching the art of scoring soundtracks at the National Theatre in
Mannheim.
www.abc-festival.de
www.schillertage.de
2006 CD Releases:
CONVERTIBLE:
Frailty Of Win - Strength Of Defeat
( OUT on Monkey Music/Broken Silence/Universal/Musikvertrieb in Europe,
on Sausage Records/JAPAN ).
"Hans Platzgumer's St.Peppers album"
check the video
(directed by Georg Gaigl)
(10mb quicktime file)
SHINTO:
Sekai
the new album by the japanese-austrian-german electric-ethnic band is
out on Echokammer / Europe and Sausage Records / Japan.
"featuring great guestmusicians and charismatic hooks"
E:GUM : "Keyboard
Lies" on KLEIN records.
...full of kicking electroid tunes, out on CD and doubleVinyl.
www.kleinrecords.com
Hp.Stonji : Mélaina
Cholé
(Spezialmaterial / Baked-Goods/UK)
...voted into the BBC's 'Best records of 2004'.
www.boomkat.com
Buy some hp records
here:
phonoclub.de - mdos.at
- cd now - sonicgroove
- amazon
- euromusicworld
mp3 downloads:
yoosic - boomkat
-finetunes - bleep
...
If you can't find what you're looking for we might be able to help.
contact
on
stage:
Current shows with hp.stonji, Convertible, King Of Japan, Shinto, solo
and duo performances, readings, unplugged gigs, DJ sets or special events...
Booking
inquiries
2008:
23.1.: Munich / Literaturhaus (w/ A.Ostermaier)
13.-15.2.: Bozen , Meran (w/ A.Ostermaier)
22.2.: Landshut / Theater (w/ A.Ostermaier)
14.+15.3.: Buchmesse Leipzig / Volksbühne (reading + Hp.Stonji)
16.3.: Munich / Feierwerk Kranhalle (reading)
21.3.: Steyr / Röda (reading + Convertible)
10.4.: Munich / Muffatwerk Ampere (reading)
11.4.: Ingolstadt / Literaturfestival (w/ A.Ostermaier)
14.4.: Imst / Stadtbücherei (reading)
17.4.: Vienna / Rabenhof Theater (reading + concert)
18.4.: Zürich / Schauspielhaus (w/ A.Ostermaier)
24.4.: Innsbruck / Bierstindl (reading + concert)
25.4.: Salzburg / ArgeKultur (reading + dj)
26.4.: Vienna / Porgy & Bess (reading)
2.5.: Augsburg / Barfüßlerkirche (reading)
15.5.: Mannheim / Natinaltheater (reading + gig)
16.5.: Stuttgart / Fluctuating Images (w/ snk)
21.5.: Munich / Kammerspiele (King Of Japan)
22.5.: Hildesheim / Prosanova Festival (reading + dj)
24.5.: Bregenz / Theater Kosmos (reading)
26.5.: Vienna / ORF klangtheater
31.5.: Salzburg / Hotel Stein (reading, + A. Ostermaier)
31.5.: Munich / Schwules Kommunikationszentrum / Lange Nacht der Museen (reading)
6.6.: Marbach / Literaturmuseum (w/ A. Ostermaier)
17.-20.7.: Augsburg / ABC* Festival
25.7.: Bern / Stone Age Festival
23.9.: Mülheim / Theater an der Ruhr (w/ A.Ostermaier)
1.10.: Munich / Literaturhaus (abc)
3.10.: Mannheim / Nationaltheater
17.10.: Innsbruck / PMK (Koj)
18.10.: Munich / Digitalanalog Festival (Shinto, Koj)
24.10.: Heidenreichstei NÖ / Literatur Im Nebel
5.11.: Bozen / Gallerie Prisma (reading)
20.11.: Dornbirn / C-Art Gallerie