"The Faust Cycle", the epic 14 hour adventure for sound by Ergo Phizmiz (made between 2006-2009 and originally released on Headphonica), has now been added to the archives of Ubuweb.
Direct link here.
Writer, composer, collagist, theatre & opera maker, radio producer, songwriter, and performer Ergo Phizmiz. The scourge of modern opera and Paul McCartney's favourite meat substitute.
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Showing posts with label headphonica. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
"Music from the Shoes of Fulcanelli" - In Sync
The 2011 Ergo Phizmiz album "Music from the Shoes of Fulcanelli", a series of instrumental compositions based on melodies and structures from early 20th century classical music and Renaissance music, has proven incredibly popular as soundtracks for an array of short films. You can download the album, free, at the marvellous Headphonica.
Mirrors and self-portraits from cuantofalta on Vimeo.
The Teddy Tea Party - Prologue - Short Film from Jesper Karmark on Vimeo.
The Remedy from Charles Huette on Vimeo.
Dear Stephen from StrongLook on Vimeo.
Krabat & Co from Mario Marinkovic on Vimeo.
Binky purring HD from Helmut Ganster on Vimeo.
Sea Bream Festival at Toyohama, Japan from momo on Vimeo.
Mirrors and self-portraits from cuantofalta on Vimeo.
The Teddy Tea Party - Prologue - Short Film from Jesper Karmark on Vimeo.
The Remedy from Charles Huette on Vimeo.
Dear Stephen from StrongLook on Vimeo.
Krabat & Co from Mario Marinkovic on Vimeo.
Binky purring HD from Helmut Ganster on Vimeo.
Sea Bream Festival at Toyohama, Japan from momo on Vimeo.
Friday, 26 August 2011
Ergo Phizmiz "Lullaby for a Sinking Submarine" out now on Headphonica
Take a deep breath and .........
Download this release with delicious artwork by Marian Reinig at the glorious Headphonica
Download this release with delicious artwork by Marian Reinig at the glorious Headphonica
Friday, 25 March 2011
"Fulcanelli's Shoes" and "Music From The Shoes of Fulcanelli" out now on Headphonica
Reconsider your histories. We live in an age of holocaust deniers and the Da Vinci Code, the information age has become the age of fabricating the past. Reality has become something malleable, flexible to the needs and whims of whomever happens to be recalling what has already been.
“Fulcanelli’s Shoes” is a response of sorts to this cultural phenomenon, by artist, composer and writer Ergo Phizmiz. Weaving a tale with one foot paddling in truth, and the other firmly embedded in lies, the piece presents a rewritten cultural history of the 20th century, presenting the relationship between the artistic and alchemical worlds at the beginning of the century as the catalyst for the creative, scientific and political revolutions of the proceeding times.
Discover how Jean Cocteau could travel in time; the secrets of the Large Hadron Collider; hear a genuine alchemical transmutation of base metal into gold; find out how anagrams built the universe; learn how to fix anything that is broken …..
Part lecture, part opera, part documentary, this is a uniquely 21st century artwork, bringing together strands of forms into a unified but scattershot form. Collaborating with film-maker Martha Moopette and performer Vulnavia Vanity, Ergo Phizmiz has created a truly experimental piece of anti-art, with the feel of something akin to being kicked in the face with a Ferrero Rocher boot.
Recorded live at Soundart Radio, Dartington, UK, February 5th 2011.
Written, Composed, Narrated & Produced by ERGO PHIZMIZ
Shadow-Puppets, Animation, Video editing, Consultancy by MARTHA MOOPETTE
Music based on themes by
ERIK SATIE
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MAURICE RAVEL
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
EDVARD GRIEG
FRANCIS POULENC
IGOR STRAVINSKY
GIOVANNIA BATTISTA PERGOLESI
GEORGES AURIC
With film extracts from
JEAN COCTEAU
KAREL ZEMAN
HANS RICHTER
JOSEF VON BAKY
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
SERGEI EISENSTEIN
JACQUES TATI
ORSON WELLES
ALEXANDER CALDER
FERNAND LEGER
* Used without permission, but lots of respect
“Barbette” performed by VULNAVIA VANITY
Fulcanelli’s Feminity performed by MARTHA MOOPETTE
Sarangi performed by AMIE WILLINGALE
Foley contributions from THE TRAVELLING MONGOOSE
Mycology photographs by TRAVIS NOBLES
Live sound-engineering and introduction by MONKTON WYLDE
“The Man With The Glass Nose” and “The Flat and Round Painter”
Written by KURT SCHWITTERS
Translated by JACK ZIPES
* With the kind permission of Jack Zipes at Princeton University Press
Extracts from the Ursonate by KURT SCHWITTERS
to download the entire album [mp3 & artwork, zip] click >>> here <<<>>> here <<<>>> here <<<
to download the entire piece [hplive012 + hpcd088 + video.mp4] click >>> here <<<
Friday, 28 May 2010
V/A "The Faust Re.Cycled" out now on Headphonica
Earlier this year the exquisite Headphonica released “The Faust Cycle”, a 14+ hour dream fable of speech, songs, collage and sound-design by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends. From Headphonica:"The diversity and oddness of sounds and harmony literally cried for being remixed. So did the snippets & samples Ergo provided for this remix project.
Now here they are ..."
Download "The Faust Re.Cycle" at Headphonica
Featuring Anton, Motokoishii, 1983, Lezet, Seiei Jack, Monos, Satanicpornocultshop, Goines ma non Troppo, Simone Genesi, Traqueurs De Combes, Tozz Rox, The Truth About Frank, Schizoid Cosmos, Broken Hours, Panda Paranoico, Vladislav Nogin, Dinty Slop, Winterberg, The Mueslimen, Hochgobernitz, and Gurdonark for the remixes, and once again marvellous artwork from Moritz Grunke
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
The Faust Re.Cycled
From Headphonica:
“The Faust Re.Cycled” is a remix-project in connexion with the the biggest/hughest creative commons release so far: “The Faust Cycle” by Ergo Phizmiz [myspace.com/ergophizmiz], released on [you guessed it] www.headphonica.com on January 1st 2010.
“The Faust Cycle” is an extraordinary album as it embodys 14+ hours [!] of music surrounding the phantastic fable about the house of Dr. Faustus - it is a “musical-comedy of disorientation and magick, somewhere between nightmare and the half-remembered childhood whimsy of an insomniac music-hall artiste”.
more information can be found here:
http://www.headphonica.com/?p=
where you can also download the whole piece for free in various formats:
- mp3 [5 chunks / 2 GB]
- FLAC [in one piece / 4 GB]
- ogg [in one piece / 800+ MB]
not to forget the marvellous artwork [DIN A3, 2sided, pdf/jpg/gif]. now it's time to remix it:
so here you are:
http://www.headphonica.com/
includes 62 samples and snippets from the original mastertapes, compressed in mp3/320kbps.
you can also cut out whatever you like from the released 14+hours and reconstruct it.
if you need something very special, please contact the duke of phizmiz himself: ergophizmiz@googlemail.com
so, take the samples and do whatever you like.
there are already many genres/styles in the original Faust Cycle - it’s up to you to transfer this samples into something new: invent new genres now.
click, create, communicate.
please send your remixes to:
headphonica@gmx.net
as we'd like to normalize the remixes before publishing them it's neccessary that you send it in WAV-quality / uncompressed. you can use www.sendspace.com / www.yousendit.com / www.megaupload.com or any free service like that and just post us the download-link.
if you have more than 300MB to send us we recommend http://www.mammutmail.com/en/ which takes up to 1GB
DEADLINE for submissions is april 30th.
“The Faust Re.Cycled” will be released including your remix on may 21st on Headphonica
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Two Songs from The Faust Cycle
Two songs from the 14 hour audio adventure The Faust Cycle, by Ergo Phizmiz.
The first is an argument between a pantomime God & Devil, accompanied by a chorus of angels & demons, that takes place inside a kinetoscope.
The second is what happens when a sexually aroused monkey is placed backstage in an opera house.
The Faust Cycle is available as a Creative Commons, free audio release on Headphonica.
Artwork for this single by Rob Henderson.
"The Faust Cycle", more reviews
Ergo Phizmiz's 14 hour audio work "The Faust Cycle", released as free, Creative Commons audio on Headphonica, is continuing to pop up across the wonder of the blogosphere.
From Journey Through a Burning Brain:
"Expect some kind of deeply disturbing, elevating and jolly sound-meditation.. for hours and hours and hours...This thing is a mix of narrated passages which penetrate your mind in a poetry-like, dreamy, collage, trip -like fashion. An intertextual explosion. Interwoven with longer and shorter and longer pieces of, well to keep it simple, music...expect everything."
From Ayeball:
"... this is clearly the work of a singular visionary...A real iPod-strainer at around 2GB in size, but it more than justifies the space and will keep you entertained for hours (at least fifteen of ‘em). As I type, I’m halfway through the second of five chunks, and am utterly enraptured."
Thankyerkindly ...
From Journey Through a Burning Brain:
"Expect some kind of deeply disturbing, elevating and jolly sound-meditation.. for hours and hours and hours...This thing is a mix of narrated passages which penetrate your mind in a poetry-like, dreamy, collage, trip -like fashion. An intertextual explosion. Interwoven with longer and shorter and longer pieces of, well to keep it simple, music...expect everything."
From Ayeball:
"... this is clearly the work of a singular visionary...A real iPod-strainer at around 2GB in size, but it more than justifies the space and will keep you entertained for hours (at least fifteen of ‘em). As I type, I’m halfway through the second of five chunks, and am utterly enraptured."
Thankyerkindly ...
Friday, 15 January 2010
"The Faust Cycle" - Full broadcast on n0theen Internet Radio
Starting on January 17th and on consecutive Sundays, n0theen radio will be broadcasting the entirety of Ergo Phizmiz's 14 hour "The Faust Cycle" (released Jan 1st on Headphonica), at the following times ....
17.01.2010 18:00 – 21:00 CET (GMT/UTC +1) – chunk 1
24.01.2010 18:00 – 21:00 CET (GMT/UTC +1) – chunk 2
31.01.2010 18:00 – 21:00 CET (GMT/UTC +1) – chunk 3
07.02.2010 18:00 – 21:00 CET (GMT/UTC +1) – chunk 4
14.02.2010 18:00 – 21:00 CET (GMT/UTC +1) – chunk 5
Tune in at notheen.com
"n0theen is an non-profit, commercial free internet radio station (24/7 audio stream) which webcasts Copyleft, Public Domain and Creative Commons music only."
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Why download "The Faust Cycle"? 1 - 46
From the merciless addiction that is Twitter, 46 reasons to download Ergo Phizmiz's big, big sound-art piece "The Faust Cycle", which you can grab, freely from Headphonica.
1) It features a string quartet riding bicycles & playing Janacek.
2) We pay a visit to Trimalchio's next dinner party.
3) Marcel Duchamp learns to rap.
4) Latvian songbird Margita Zalite sings Peggy Lee and makes it her own.
5) To hear the sound of a Moses basket made of gurgling babies in a sewer.
6) A walking gramophone.
7) The regular appearance of an 1832 Debain Harmonium.
8) A ukulele song about love and poo.
9) It took three years and nearly made my brain collapse.
10) It can be listened to closely, or allowed to linger in the background.
11) To hear the largest and most ornate bowel movement in history.
12) To hear Pete Um wax lyrical about opera and sing about cassowaries.
13) Where else would you hear a giant exploding pig?
14) To hear a singing child psychiatrist.
15) To hear a mambo duet between God & the Devil.
16) For Helen of Troy's mime-only version of The Iliad.
17) For Igor Stravinsky's stand-up comedy show.
18) If you've nothing better to do, you can nearly pass a whole day.
19) For Bela Emerson's gorgeous cello & electronics improvisations.
20) To hear Joseph Cornell speaking entirely through sound-collage.
21) In order to find out what happens when a train comes to a dinner party.
22) Find out what happens with an aroused monkey backstage in an opera house
23) It has no cryptic references to the number 23.
24) Meet Mr Sausage.
25) It's chock full of brand new pop songs locked within it's fabric.
26) To hear Angela Valid's electroacoustic hell kebabs.
27) What does a piano promenading through a sewer sound like?
28) To hear a mechanical doll careering out of control at 80 mph.
29) For a myriad marble runs.
30) For a TR606 improvising with a rainstorm.
31) To hear James Nye's variations of Erik Satie "An Evening in Hell".
32) Hear the Four Tops covered by Noel Coward and a Country & Western band.
33) Peer into the Devil's pantomime kinetoscopes.
34) It's not created by Simon Cowell. Or is it?
35) To hear me flushing myself down the toilet.
36) Martha Moopette monologues off Cole Porter lyrics.
37) It has no headlice in it.
38) It's an iPod killer!
39) Hear the world gently, gently crack
40) For a malevolent talking Albatross, of course.
41) For insect recordings by Irene Moon, the singing entomologist.
42) Discover how to be a ventriloquist with no talent for doing so.
43) Hear Erich Von Stroheim over and over and over and over and over again.
44) To put Ergo Phizmiz at rest and give his poor, twittering fingers a break. (Contributed by the great Navia of Vanity)
45) Because Vulnavia Vanity says so.
46) For the 1940s style balloon dance of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague.
1) It features a string quartet riding bicycles & playing Janacek.
2) We pay a visit to Trimalchio's next dinner party.
3) Marcel Duchamp learns to rap.
4) Latvian songbird Margita Zalite sings Peggy Lee and makes it her own.
5) To hear the sound of a Moses basket made of gurgling babies in a sewer.
6) A walking gramophone.
7) The regular appearance of an 1832 Debain Harmonium.
8) A ukulele song about love and poo.
9) It took three years and nearly made my brain collapse.
10) It can be listened to closely, or allowed to linger in the background.
11) To hear the largest and most ornate bowel movement in history.
12) To hear Pete Um wax lyrical about opera and sing about cassowaries.
13) Where else would you hear a giant exploding pig?
14) To hear a singing child psychiatrist.
15) To hear a mambo duet between God & the Devil.
16) For Helen of Troy's mime-only version of The Iliad.
17) For Igor Stravinsky's stand-up comedy show.
18) If you've nothing better to do, you can nearly pass a whole day.
19) For Bela Emerson's gorgeous cello & electronics improvisations.
20) To hear Joseph Cornell speaking entirely through sound-collage.
21) In order to find out what happens when a train comes to a dinner party.
22) Find out what happens with an aroused monkey backstage in an opera house
23) It has no cryptic references to the number 23.
24) Meet Mr Sausage.
25) It's chock full of brand new pop songs locked within it's fabric.
26) To hear Angela Valid's electroacoustic hell kebabs.
27) What does a piano promenading through a sewer sound like?
28) To hear a mechanical doll careering out of control at 80 mph.
29) For a myriad marble runs.
30) For a TR606 improvising with a rainstorm.
31) To hear James Nye's variations of Erik Satie "An Evening in Hell".
32) Hear the Four Tops covered by Noel Coward and a Country & Western band.
33) Peer into the Devil's pantomime kinetoscopes.
34) It's not created by Simon Cowell. Or is it?
35) To hear me flushing myself down the toilet.
36) Martha Moopette monologues off Cole Porter lyrics.
37) It has no headlice in it.
38) It's an iPod killer!
39) Hear the world gently, gently crack
40) For a malevolent talking Albatross, of course.
41) For insect recordings by Irene Moon, the singing entomologist.
42) Discover how to be a ventriloquist with no talent for doing so.
43) Hear Erich Von Stroheim over and over and over and over and over again.
44) To put Ergo Phizmiz at rest and give his poor, twittering fingers a break. (Contributed by the great Navia of Vanity)
45) Because Vulnavia Vanity says so.
46) For the 1940s style balloon dance of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague.
Monday, 4 January 2010
Great review of The Faust Cycle
"Certainly the most astonishing piece of netaudio I have ever come across ... words like 'epic' do not even begin to describe the mind-boggling expansiveness of this work."
Read the full review at the positively delightful Hiddenplacemusic.
Friday, 1 January 2010
The Faust Cycle - Download from Headphonica
The Faust Cycle
or, The House of Dr Faustus
-Released 1st January 2010 on Headphonica -
Written, Composed, Performed & Produced by
Ergo Phizmiz
Project consultants
James Nye, Martha Moopette, The Travelling Mongoose
or, The House of Dr Faustus
-Released 1st January 2010 on Headphonica -
Written, Composed, Performed & Produced by
Ergo Phizmiz
Project consultants
James Nye, Martha Moopette, The Travelling Mongoose
One afternoon Ergo Phizmiz finds himself lumbered into delivering a parcel to the house of legendary alchemist and necromancer Dr Johann Faustus who, since the events of some time ago for which he is renowned, has entered into a rather quieter life in a vast, labyrinthine house, with hundreds of lodgers running the gamut from artists, birds, bird-people, walking fictions, ventriloquists, a Cassowary, running chairs, walking gramophones, and myriad automata.
This enormous dream fable, told through speech, songs, collage and sound-design, is the result of over three years delving down various rabbit-holes, and features collaborations in a range of contexts with artists of many disciplines, including Jack Phoenix, Margita Zalite, Pete Um, Angela Valid, Bela Emerson, Martha Moopette, Amie Willingale, and Zenith Pitts.
In glorious radiophonic technicolour, it is a musical-comedy of disorientation and magick, somewhere between nightmare and the half-remembered childhood whimsy of an insomniac music-hall artiste.
Download the entire 15 hours, complete with magnificent artwork from Moritz Grunke and friends, free, from the marvellous Headphonica.
The project is supported by Arts Council England, Soundart Radio, Vaguely Marsupial Productions, VentnorBlog, Quay Arts
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