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.

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

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

Ergo Phizmiz - Live in Warsaw - Free Live Album

A live album, from Ergo Phizmiz's live show at The Song Is You Festival, Warsaw, September 2009.



The show featured Warsaw based musicians Macio Moretti & Piotr Zabrodski, and goes between solo numbers performed by Ergo, and songs performed as a three piece band.

Download it at the Free Music Archive.

Watch People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz Live at King's Place

From Peoplelikeus.org, here is the entirety of the PLU & Ergo Phizmiz live show, from King's Place "Art of Sampling" festival, November 2008.

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Download the video here.

Turkey Party

Ergo Phizmiz presents dessications of all your favourite Yuletide hits.

An album cut from the Christmas specials of Phuj Phactory on WFMU (2006), and Sticky White Glue on Resonance FM (2003).

Download it free, at the WFMU Free Music Archive.

Jingle Hell on Soundart Radio

From Saturday December 13th on Soundart Radio:

"Soundart Radio's annual mash up of all things seasonal. Open to contributors: send us your Christmas noises, subversions, poems, etc. This year we feature work from Wrong Music, Oima, Ergo Phizmiz, John Rutter, Ren and Stimpy, Monkton Wylde, Lucinda Guy and more. More material shall be added."

The Ergo Phizmiz music in Jingle Hell includes seasonal collages originally produced for WFMU, Ergo's 2004 improvised turntable performance for Christian Marclay's 'The Sounds of Christmas' project, the Father Christmas speech from the 2002 Komediergophizmiz performed by Erik Bumbledonk, and the Sticky White Glue Christmas episode.

"Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me" on BBC iPlayer, and new Ergo Phizmiz website

For the next five days you can stream the new Ergo Phizmiz radio-art piece "Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me" on BBC iPlayer. Direct link to listen.

And why not head over to the swish and swanky new Ergo Phizmiz website, now at the new address of www.ergophizmiz.net