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Burkhard Stangl (1960) lives and works in Vienna. He is a composer and performer (guitar, electronic devices) who works in the field of non-idiomatic improvisation, electronica and contemporary classical music. He studied: classical guitar; electric guitar (autodidacted); cultural anthropology, musicology (thesis about the effects of the phonograph on cultural anthropology [book: Ethnologie im Ohr]). He is a long term guitar-player at Franz Koglmann’s projects (Monoblue Quartet, Pipetet); founder of the ensembles Ton.Art (advanced jazz /1985-1995), Maxixe (new music chamber ensemble / 1991 ff.) and Extended Heritage (Butcher/Castelló/Dieb13/Reiter/Roisz/Stangl /2006); member of Polwechsel (1993-2004), efzeg a.o. He plays with Christof Kurzmann (Schnee), Taku Unami (I was), Taku Sugimoto (An old fashioned duet), Angélica Castelló (Chesterfield), Kai Fagaschinski, Dieb 13, Billy Roisz a.o. His compositions include pieces for Maxixe, Klangforum Wien; opera-project Moon of Venus (1997-2002) together with the poet Oswald Egger; and also music for films, Gustav Deutsch: film.ist 7-12 (together with Siewert/Fennesz/Dafeldecker) and welt.spiegel.kino (with fennesz)
He appears on more than 50 CD-releases on labels as Erstwhile, Kairos, Bocian, Leo, Musica Genera and many others. His newest album is to be released on Touch in October 2013.
http://stangl.klingt.org/