Cinemacollages 3: Animixion

CINEMACOLLAGES 3: ANIMIXION, in which Ergo Phizmiz takes a slice across the history of animation and sets their music and sound-designs ballroom dancing with one another.



 
Containing sound and music from the films of....
Jan Lenica
Stefan Schabenbeck
John Halas
Ryan Larkin
Raoul Servais
Bob Godfrey
Zlatko Grgic
Gene Deitch
Len Lye
Dusan Vukotic
Bruno Bozzetto
Walt Disney
Pierre Hebert
Jiri Trnka

Like this? Why not dip into the heady world of Ergo Phizmiz's Cinemacollages 1 & 2?

New Collages & Mixed Media work by Ergo Phizmiz

New things. You can come and see these in the flesh, and hundreds more, at HOLLYWOOD, Ergo Phizmiz's studio, which is taking part in the next Bridport Open Studios at the end of August....

"Machine Meditations" - Triptych. Acrylic, Wall Paint, Ink, Collage & Meccano on wood panels.

"Enochianopoly" - Phantasy Board Game. Cardboard, wood, vinyl record, ping-pong ball, paper, marker-pen, collage, poster-paint, acrylic paint, domino, clothes peg, dice.

"Aurora" - Paper, cigar, domino, fabric, wall paint, marker paint on canvas.

"With Or Without Boiled Beans" - Paper, electrical tape, cardboard, plastic.

"Intermezzo" - Fabric, meccano, ink, paper, on canvas.

MUMBO JAMBO: Four Electronic Pieces

Ergo Phizmiz presents MUMBO JAMBO, four new slices of electronic collage music. Games with modular composition, swollen melody, and badly behaved rhythms.

Including samples of Jane Saunders, Simon Hartung & Amie Willingale Trio, W.A. Mozart, Morton Subotnick, DJ Pierre, Conlon Nancarrow, Pitman's Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction, Georges Antheil, Erik Satie, Carl Stalling, Simon Mathewson, Siegfried Wendel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Mieko Somi, Ennio Morricone, Johann Strauss II, Krimanchuli Orera, J.S. Bach, Youtube Funk Drumming Lessons, The Bangles.

Cover photo by the marvellous Caroline Stupnicka, taken at IF4 The End is NYE, Bridport.

And....

If you enjoy this, dip into other pieces by Ergo Phizmiz. Tell your friends. If you like, and have it to spare, and would like to keep hearing such dulcet tones as these, donate some money here. Because we keep running out of the stuff. We know you do too. But, yer know.....

New visual pieces by Ergo Phizmiz, November 2013

"An Echo Flagrantly Attempting to Pass Itself Off as an Original Sound" - Wood, bass-drum pedal, toy dartboard, pen, poster-paint, and acrylic on canvas.

"OPERA en DEUX actes" - Staticopera in two acts. Wood, collage, acrylic, watercolour. "Billiards" work-in-progress.

"The Rubber" - Excessive Entertainment Tint of Vintage Print. Acrylic.

Ergo Phizmiz "THE NOEL COWARD TRILOGY" (2011-2013)

"The Noel Coward Trilogy" (2011-2013). 

Collage Operas. 

Media playing games with itself, with Ergo Phizmiz as slightly cruel ringmaster. 

Image as music, sound as image, re-filming films, personalisation of the past. 

Adventures in intermedia storytelling, and the use of chance to "grow narratives" from the collision of media and time. 

Carousels of images, circles of sonic juxtapositions, slapshod re-contextualisation, silent music, discovery of rhythms hiding in the gaps and the creases.

Animation, composition, found-video, found-sound, found-text. Paper, Scissors, Stones.

The production of the Noel Coward trilogy was assisted by contributions from Martha Moopette, Simon Mathewson, The Travelling Mongoose, and Flora Cavalino Bertolli.

- Part One -

"Aria For Cowards"

- Part Two -

"The Impulse to Shoot at Every Shadow"

- Part Three -

"Every Hitch and Every Hold Up"

"EVERY HITCH and EVERY HOLD UP" - a Collage Opera by Ergo Phizmiz

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.

New paper collages for May days and gardens....

ULTRAORGAN

New collages in paper, paint, pegs, canvas, card, books, record sleeves

Units of Mystification

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


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


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

Unwanted Mash-Ups: Chicago Juke vs Pitman's Gramophone Course of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction

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

Four 12" single-press vinyl for sale ..... as limited as they come, grab 'em!

The first four installments of six, unique vinyl records. There is one copy of each up for grabs, so be quick. Each of the records comes in one-off, handmade artwork of wallpaper, wrapping paper, paint, craft paper, and marker pen, lovingly handcrafted by Ergo Phizmiz.

Due to the single-press nature of each vinyl, we are selling them for £30 a piece, plus £5 shipping. You want one? Yes..... so e-mail me on ergophizmiz at gmail dot com and Paypal details will be forwarded.....

1) "Before I Acquired My Tardis" - 12" single-press vinyl with handmade artwork - THIS RECORD HAS NOW FOUND A HAPPY HOME
Experiments in ambient and drone music, made using voice, instruments and computers, exploring relationships between space, time, and depth in composition, before I acquired my Tardis. Recorded in Lincoln, UK, 2002-2004.

2) "Why Not Sneeze, Achilles?" - 12" single-press vinyl with handmade artwork - THIS RECORD HAS NOW FOUND A HAPPY HOMECuttings and layer from 'The Faust Cycle', starring Marcel Duchamp and Helen of Troy. The Duchamp side is constructed of his speech 'The Creative Act' cut with easy-listening records, toy instruments, and electronics. The Helen of Troy side is constructed from Hungarian folksongs and musique-concrete. Recorded in Devon, 2006.

3) "Best Heard in a Ballroom" - 12" single-press vinyl with handmade artwork THIS RECORD HAS NOW FOUND A HAPPY HOMEElements and experiments from sample compositions, made principally using ballroom and British dance-band music. Recorded on the Isle of Wight and in Normandy, France, 2005-2007. Very fractured and deconstructed sample music, abrupt silences, jaggedy relationships, some of the seeds of the musical constructions I'd make much later in pieces like The Third Policeman.

4) "Balromulus Machinus" - 12" single-press vinyl with handmade artwork - THIS RECORD HAS NOW FOUND A HAPPY HOMESampling experiments recorded between 2005-2007, the innards of a ballroom machine. Similar in tone to record (3), but more jagged, sounds cut at right-angles to their partners.

People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz "Perpetuum Mobile" album now available for freeeeee

We are very pleased to announce that we are now giving a download of our album Perpetuum Mobile (by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) away for free! This is still available as a CD with beautiful packaging, from our shop but if you like your mp3s then here they are...



Here's the artwork



Free film to go with Perpetuum Mobile"

Also, "Ghosts Before Breakfast" from Perpetuum Mobile has a film to go with it! We are making it available for the first time ever now.

"Ghosts Before Breakfast" Hans Richter (1928) / People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz (2007) from Vicki WFMU on Vimeo.

Here's the press release for this wonderful offering by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz:

"Perpetuum Mobile" is the result of a uniquely schizophrenic "open source" compositional process: the UK's finest collage composers Ergo Phizmiz and People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) uploaded files to a shared server, downloaded and processed each other's work, and flung the resulting fragments back at each other. The result is an interpenetrating audio-collage so intricate that neither party can recall who did what to whom. So far, so avant-garde; but what makes this record different is that Ergo and Vicki then wrote and sang their own vocals on top of their Frankenstein creation. Here you will find slyly absurdist lyrics replete with monkeys, carousels, trousers, apple trees, tinkling bells, dogs, sausages, whiskey, and cannibalism. No matter how fraught with trauma, these ballads and ditties are sung with a straight face and mixed front and center, and the results feel like 1930s British music hall standards from an alternate universe: half Ivor Cutler, half George Formby. The astonishing thing is that for all this jiggery-pokery, "Perpetuum Mobile" makes for an exhilarating, remarkably fresh pop album. It works. On "Ghosts Before Breakfast" Ergo and Vicki proudly declare that they've got "quite a selection of pastry", and if the profusion of cuckoo clocks, gunshots, horn farts, string vamps, and digital malfeasance which go hurtling through this opening track is any indication, that's no idle boast. For sheer cornucopia of sonic raw materials, this track's avalanche of information sets the tone for the overflowing, manic record that follows. There's far too much to fully parse, but among the highlights: "Beyond Perpetuum" pushes off from the Comedian Harmonists' take on the 19th century compositional craze for "moto perpetuo" runs of continuous notes at a rapid tempo, and folds found piano, voice and strings into an interlocking array of M.C. Escher harmonic stairways. "Air Hostess" is detourned lounge pop that stitches together Nelson Riddle's "Ya Ya" theme to "Lolita", "Walk Right In", light operettas, organ, bachelor pad cha cha and mambo, and nervously twitching shards of Louis Armstrong. "Pierrot's Persecution Mania" bravely explores the possibilities of a Montparnasse-via-Dixieland hybrid of can-can and bluegrass, with ridiculous canned strings colliding with jew's harp boings, while "Soggy Style" rides banjo twangs, a digital bossa nova breakdown, and the "whooo-ooes" nicked from Terry Stafford's "Suspicion". Living up to the perpetual motion of its title and cock-a-hoop cover art, this is a frantically energetic music whose layered repetitions become cumulatively more disorienting and preposterous as they loop back. "Perpetuum Mobile" goes beyond the stealth-oldies nostalgia of the mashup scene and the "culture-jamming" rhetoric of plunderphonics, and shows Mr. Ergo and Ms. Vicki to be a potent, if Surrealist, songwriting team, and together they braid oddly affecting vocals and their trademark stolen audio into twenty-first century pop. Like the perpetual motion machines for which it is named, this collaboration will run and run and run and run and run and run and runŠ - Drew Daniel

"Sticky White Glue" download time .... and then some "Codpaste"!

The first release in the Collected Radio Works by Ergo Phizmiz, spanning over 30 hours of experimental radio across sound-collage, spoken-word & radioplays, large-scale instrumental compositions, songs, ambient & furniture music, musique-concrete, installations, and sound-poetry, produced between 2000-2008.

"Ergo Phizmiz's Sticky White Glue, a twelve-part series of sound montages--voices, music, and plunderphonic juxtapositions of the two--reminds us why radio has been described as "schizophonic," packing more disembodied sounds and voices than the ear can process" - Artforum magazine

This series "Sticky White Glue" first aired 2003-2004 on Resonance FM, London, and was repeated 2009 on Soundart Radio, Dartington. Segments of the pieces were also broadcast by Kenny G on WFMU. It is a fanciful play-around with the juxtapositions of instruments & voices with sampling and digital composition, and features as its main protagonists Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy.

Download it at WFMU's Free Music Archive.

And then, blimeyblimey, we are are delighted to also present a permanent archive of "Codpaste" by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz.

"Codpaste" was a weekly podcast series in which the two artists attempted to compose collage music from the very beginning, in a "work in progress" style, attempting to open up the creative process. The theory is that it is rare to see compositions made from the outset, and usually the audience are only invited in once the piece is finished, done and dusted. These weekly programmes were expanded into a digital-only album entitled “Rhapsody in Glue”.

Download Codpaste at Free Music Archive.

Down By The Stream #2 on Soundart Radio

Ergo Phizmiz and compadre The Travelling Mongoose put on their fishing hats and go for another amiable chat and extended sit Down By The Stream, on Soundart Radio this Thursday 30/04/09, 2pm UK time.

This is the second in an occasional series, in which Ergo & the Mongoose fuse old vinyl, original field-recordings & found-sound, collage-composition, spoken-word, and foley.

The show will be made available as an mp3 download from this blog after the broadcast. Go to Soundart Radio.

For the first of the Down By The Stream shows in mp3, go here.

And for previous experimental mix radio madness with Ergo & the Mongoose you could do worse than listen to the 2007 podcasts of Time Travel Musical Bazaar on WFMU.

Ergo Phizmiz on Soundart Radio & "Down By The Stream"

Ergo Phizmiz recently started weekly shows on Dartington, UK, radio station Soundart Radio, which run weekly on Thursdays at 2-3 UK time.

The shows are of no fixed format, keeping the shows open for fun and experimentation, and every third week of the month will feature "Down By The Stream", a new collaborative turntable and field-recording fiesta with The Travelling Mongoose, who previously worked with Ergo on the Uutske Buutske project, and the WFMU Time Travel Musical Bazaar podcasts.

"Down By The Stream" will also be available as mp3s from this blog, on the third Thursday of each month, so here, my dears, is the first one.

Down By The Stream, by Ergo Phizmiz & The Travelling Mongoose, Show 1

Turntables by Ergo Phizmiz & The Travelling Mongoose
Field-Recordings by The Travelling Mongoose
Featuring two spoken-word pieces by Jack Phoenix
Produced by Ergo Phizmiz

Occasionally other shows from the Soundart Radio series will be available as mp3, but for legal reasons the straightforward track-mix shows will not be. So in that case you'll have to tune in to future episodes, which you can stream from Soundart Radio.