Ergo Phizmiz "Music for Theatre, Film & Radio" released for a limited time via Pay-With-a-Tweet

Twenty-four choice choppings of instrumental music by UK based composer, collagist, writer, film-maker, imaginary raconteur, and fancy-footworker. Recorded between 2009-2012 for radioplays, short films, theatre, and opera.

This release will be available for a limited time only, in the run up to Ergo Phizmiz's appearances at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012 and Interzone Theatre's "The Grinder" project, which is written by Ergo Phizmiz.

It is available exclusively via the Pay-With-a-Tweet service, and why not eh?

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Booking for Ergo Phizmiz: "Queen of Names"

Booking for Elvis Herod's "Mike the Headless Chicken"

Booking for "The Grinder"

GARGANTUA by Ergo Phizmiz - UK tour March 2013

Announcing the new theatre work written, composed & directed by Ergo Phizmiz.

Ergo Phizmiz sings Gilbert & Sullivan

In December 2011 Ergo Phizmiz recorded four Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, acappella, from memory, for Vicki Bennett's mammoth 744 hour radio-broadcast "Radio Boredcast".


These recordings, along with the rest of the Boredcast, is now archived by the ever marvellous WFMU.


"Around the age of 11 or 12 I became obsessed with the comic operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan. This fascination lasted around 3 years. There were posters of W.S. Gilbert (the "S" stands for Schwenck, rather spectacularly) and Arthur Sullivan on my bedroom wall.


For years the thought of returning to their works "from memory" has been at the back of my mind. My very boring contribution to Radio Boredcast is "acappella" versions of the G & S operettas "HMS Pinafore", "Iolanthe", "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Mikado".


Some of them I know better than others. In the cases where I didn't know the melodies, I made them up or roughly talked through them. I also decided to not use different voices for characters (these recordings are my second takes - the first takes sounded like The Goon Show and to be honest I had far too much fun doing them for it be genuinely boring), and to omit stage directions, so we are left with a very boring barrage of Victorian words, tuned and untuned, from my tired, monotone voice."


Ergo Phizmiz sings "The Mikado" 


Ergo Phizmiz sings "The Pirates of Penzance"


Ergo Phizmiz sings "Iolanthe"


Ergo Phizmiz sings "HMS Pinafore"


Ergo Phizmiz is a composer, writer, and multimedia artist. He makes pop, theatre, installations, opera, radio-art, radioplays, sound-collages and performances. He lives in Bridport, UK, and has a headache. He never wants to perform Gilbert & Sullivan again.

Recent Video & Performance pieces by Ergo Phizmiz

"The Impulse to Shoot at Every Shadow" by Ergo Phizmiz from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "It's a Sin" Pet Shop Boys On Fire from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.


Queen Ergo Phizmiz the 1st of England delivers The Queen's Speech from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Greater Than or Equal To video by Ergo Phizmiz from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz Has a Really, Really, Really Bad Dream from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification - Part Two" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz "Units of Mystification - Part One" from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz & Elvis Herod Dance to The End of Music from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.

Ergo Phizmiz dances to Chicago Juke vs Pitman's Gramophone Course from Ergo Phizmiz on Vimeo.