Ergo Phizmiz "Pointballing" Live at Whitechapel Gallery, November 2010

Ergo Phizmiz performs "Pointballing : 1 - What The Pig Meant" at his marathon 2 hour one-man show, November 2010, at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Collating the freebies ....

We thought this an apt time to collate in one place all the music and radio-art given away completely free so far through this blog, so here we go ....

Talulah & the Baron : Radio for Children

Pointballing : Behind-the-Scenes Recording

Down By The Stream, with Ergo Phizmiz & The Travelling Mongoose

Zdenek Liska Mix

Ergo Phizmiz on "Outsider In"

Ergo Phizmiz & Margita Zalite "Lamps & Chairs : Music for Interior Design"

New Adventures & Remixes of Vernon Lenoir

Ergo Phizmiz & his Orchestra : Plays Aphex Twin, White Light/White Heat, Arff & Beef

Un Nuit Dystopia/Hommage Michel Foucault (compilation)

Pointballing 2 : Macaroon - On BBC Radio 3 tonight

Tune into The Verb on BBC Radio 3 tonight for the second instalment of Ergo Phizmiz's "Pointballing". In a Victorian themed special of The Verb, Ergo presents a radiophonic adventure in spoken-word, sound-design, songs, and music, set during the reign of old Queen Vic - a kind of puppet-theatre for the ears.

From Radio 3:

As part of BBC Radio 3's Mendelssohn Weekend, Ian MacMillan's weekly programme dedicated to poetry and the spoken word explores the literary life of the 19th century, from its grand visions and Romanticism to its more curious and eccentric writers. Novelist and The Verb regular Toby Litt talks about some of the lesser-known poet laureates of the period, including Robert Southey, William Wordsworth and the unfortunate Alfred Austin, Tennyson's much-mocked successor, whom Robert Browning dismissed as the 'Banjo Byron'. Ergo Phizmiz presents some 'pointballing', his series of eclectic experiments in sound and language, this time with a Victorian flavour and in the spirit of the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. And novelist Gregory Norminton, author of Serious Things, reads The Chronic Omnibus, his new Wellsian tale of how the Victorians saw the future.

And exclusive to this blog in mp3, a sneak preview "behind-the-scenes" of the production of Pointballing, featuring recordings from the foley session joined by The Travelling Mongoose.

The Verb is on at 9.30pm (UK time) on BBC Radio 3, and the show will be available for one week afterwards in BBC iPlayer.

More Pointballing on the way.... BBC Radio 3

The Verb

Friday 8 May

9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

The Verb goes Victorian tonight as part of BBC Radio 3's Mendelssohn season marking the bicentenary of the composer's birth. Ian MacMillan's weekly programme dedicated to poetry and the spoken word explores the literary life of the 19th century, from its grand visions and Romanticism to its more curious writerly corners and eccentricities.

Novelist Toby Litt offers a guide to the Poets Laureate who were not Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson, of course, bestrides the era like a colossus as Queen Victoria's favourite Poet Laureate and the author of In Memoriam, the work that comforted her in her widowhood. But, Toby asks, what about the laureateships of Robert Southey, William Wordsworth and the unfortunate Alfred Austin, Tennyson's much-mocked successor, who Robert Browning dismissed as the "Banjo Byron" for his ill-judged doggerel?

Ergo Phizmiz, meanwhile, beckons listeners into the garden for a spot of "Pointballing", his series of eclectic experiments in sound and language. This week, Ergo's work has a distinctly Victorian flavour to its chaos, in the spirit of the nonsense work of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll.

And novelist Gregory Norminton, author of Serious Things, reads The Chronic Omnibus, his brand new "Wellesian" tale of how the Victorians saw the future.

Pointballing - On "The Verb", BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3's 'cabaret of spoken-word' The Verb will be presenting the first of a new Ergo Phizmiz project called "Pointballing", tomorrow night, Friday 27th March.

Pointballing is the first of what will be a number of short pieces of playful, nonsensical radio-art, with spoken-word, original music and sound-effects, written, performed and produced by Ergo Phizmiz.

Tune in ... 90-93 FM, on digital, or online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

The programme, which also features Graham Swift and Tomas Venclova, goes out 27/03/09, and will be available through the BBC's "Listen Again" service for one week after broadcast at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/theverb