BOOJUM - New radio by Ergo Phizmiz on Studio Akustische Kunst, January 25th

BOOJUM by Ergo Phizmiz, broadcasting on Studio Akustische Kunst, WDR3, on January 25th. Listen here.
The science-fiction memoirs of Ergo Phizmiz, after his death, in the 2033. Detailing a descent into obsession caused by the Boojum, a monster in the centre of the internet unintentionally unleashed by Lewis Carroll, which eats music until it disappears entirely.

Hear all about disposable music, a war in the aether between Antonin Artaud & Lewis Carroll, computer tennis music, the infinite echo chamber, popgasms, the graveyard of empty shells, and a cat called Bernard.

A dialogue between past, present and future, with a music score of 78 RPM records, and modelled on elements of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", Boojum is an adventure for radio that will send your ears and brain into a whirl.

"Conversations With Birds" - Stream & Download

You can now listen to Ergo Phizmiz's mosaic radioplay "Conversations With Birds", which premiered on 19/10/12, as stream or download at Bayerischer Rundfunk right here.

Paul Klee, A Balloon, The Moon, Music and Me - On BBC Radio 3 - December 5th 09

BROADCASTING 2130 GMT, on BBC Radio 3, Saturday December 5th 2009, and on BBC iPlayer for one week after broadcast.

On BBC Radio 3's Between The Ears, "Paul Klee, A Balloon, The Moon, Music and Me"...

A fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee, in an imaginary Klee-world of twittering machines and dream landscapes, singing colour polyphony and scribbling violin. Composer and writer Ergo Phizmiz wanders through Klee's paintings in the company of their creator, evoking their vivid colours and whimsical humour in intricately composed soundscapes. Klee takes Ergo on a hot-air balloon ride which, like a magic carpet, miraculously flies them to Tunisia, the land where he 'became a painter'. Their voyage also passes through paintings of strange gardens, mountain carnivals, and abstract colour gradations, before they finally ascend to the moon, a dream-world populated by lunar monkeys, peculiar birds and trees bulging with seeping paint.

This programme’s music and sound-design was entirely composed by Ergo Phizmiz, who also wrote the script and plays himself. The role of Paul Klee is taken by Felix Kubin, also a prolific composer and radio-play maker, who lives in Germany, and Klee's violin is performed by composer John Matthias, winner of the 2008 PRS New Music Award and collaborator with artists including Radiohead, Coldcut and Matthew Herbert.

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