Disappearing Boxes : Credits

Broadcast 01/07/11 on Studio Akustische Kunst, WDR3



Written, Composed, Performed & Produced by Ergo Phizmiz



Additional voices by Margita Zalite & Pete Um


Mechanical improvisations and jazz-tube with Erik Bumbledonk




Cassette tapes from Ergo Phizmiz's teenage years, incorporating musical compositions, comedy performances, and a local radio interview, c. 1992/3




Opera fragments by Ergo Phizmiz, from “La Puce de Neige” (2009, for Patrick Sims/Buchinger's Boot Marionettes) “The Mourning Show” (2010, for DePlayer) and “The Third Policeman” (2011, by permission of A.M. Heath Ltd.)



The song “Celandine” by Ergo Phizmiz appears courtesy of Care in the Community Recordings




Sampled (PD & CC sources): The United States Army Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps “Toccata from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo” (Creative Commons) * Enrico Caruso “Ideale My Idial”, “Campaneasera” * Archie Mayer “Svengali” * Maria Callas interview & performance * D'Oyly Carte Opera Company “The Pirates of Penzance” 78 RPM recording * Lewis Carroll's “The Hunting of the Snark” from Project Gutenberg * Paderewski piano performance * Tom Kennedy “Pigtails & Chopsticks” * Pitman's Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction * Jenny Howard “Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's Forty”


All sampled sounds from archive.org, freemusicarchive.org, and the archive of Bryan Innes Parker






Thanks to Felix Kubin, Martha Moopette, Vulnavia Vanity, Talulah & Autumn