Audio engineer and producer Conny Plank is the subject of a new documentary, Conny Plank – The Potential of Noise, set to be released September 28, 2017.
Plank’s studio was located in a house on a farm near Cologne, Germany, but was where Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Ultravox, Eurythmics, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel and others made some of their most important records.
Film Synopsis:
Producer Conny Plank was one of the most innovative sound experimentalists, producing recordings that revolutionized music that still is as valid as ever. He became a hub in the new German sounds.
Producer, sound engineer and musician covering a wide range of genres including progressive, avant-garde, electronic music and krautrock.
Dying at only 47, Plank left behind a wife, actress Christa Fast and a 13-year-old-son, Stephan.
Now, 20 years on, Stephan sets out to find his father, the film taking a journey through music history as well as around the world, to give an unusually intimate and emotional view of the artists, their work with Conny Plank and the many musical traces he left behind.
Plank and Fassbender were complete artists. Radical lifes they lived.
Looking forward to see that documentation.
Fassbinder? Complete?
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Can’t wait for this.
So many of my favourite albums have his name attached. Perhaps his greatest strength being his ability to push artists to new heights without making all his productions sound the same.
The Ultravox albums Vienna and Rage in Eden were both produced by Conny Plank, and both are great albums.
Very talented and very influential. Thank goodness someone is making this, there is so much good music it must be an easy make!!
He’s an absolute legend. I can’t wait to see this.
Autobahn, Deluxe, Cluster II, etc. etc…. Say no more. Really looking forward to seeing this.
he invented the kraftwerk sound and programming style and was hoodwinked by ralf hütter and florian schneider who had no clue at the time. source: https://www.amazon.de/Electri-City-Elektronische-D%C3%BCsseldorf-suhrkamp-taschenbuch/dp/3518464647/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1501971915&sr=8-2&keywords=electri+city
Well, duh, they took it — they worked with him from Kraftwerk I through to Autobahn.