[align=center] Since her hiatus from the heady world of the music-business, chanteuse Celine Dion has taken the way of the gentle-person and thrown herself headlong into the Sport of Golf.
It is rumoured on the internet-world-land that, due to her 16 handicap, Celine will NEVER be able to become
one of the world's top celebrity golfers.
Here at Ergo Phizmiz International Operations we disagree, and the aim of this release is to provide Celine with as much musical encouragement to improve her handicap and show the world of celebrity golf just what the woman
with the golden voice is capable of behind a club.
[align=center] "Billiards" is an electronic opera by Ergo Phizmiz, developed through an Embedded residency with Mahogany Opera Group and Sound & Music, about a meeting deep in space between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Raymond Scott, the father of electronic music.
This album comprises instrumentals and alternative versions of compositions from the score. Created using harpsichord, electronics, and the works of Mozart & Scott.
The music of Raymond Scott is used with the kind permission of the splendid folks of the Raymond Scott Archive.
Mr. Phizmiz as unique and brilliant as he ever was . . .
"Some Folk Can", in which Ergo Phizmiz presents an epic of super-magick-sexy-electro-mechanical-marvels."
- "Combining a myriad approaches from his last fourteen years of adventures in the further reaches of experi-pop-fragmento-collage-musicking into new and surprising shapes and combinations, "Some Folk Can" sees Ergo Phizmiz blur and toy with the boundaries and blurred lines of acoustic and computer music. And not a Thicke Robin in sight....
Harmoniums fly through the air and clash with electric guitars, woodblocks of all shapes and sizes judder against one another, great big airships of the history of music explode into one another. Then all the world went dark. Because some folk can."
"Though I have wept and fasted, fasted and wept, I grow old I grow old, I will wear the bottom of my trousers rolled, and so on..."
After 15 years and a completely life changing and very difficult year, it has become essential to definitively kill off Ergo Phizmiz, and begin my chequered career from scratch.
Thankyou for joining me for the ride. And fret ye not, there are hundreds of hours of music online, and hundreds more still unreleased. At some point we'll empty out the vaults in a massive splat of audio and video.
This blog will remain online as an archive.
A re-baptism / un-baptism took place at the recent performances of "Billiards" with Mahogany Opera Group. I will be back in further incarnations. You just wait and see what happens next.
The artist formerly known as Ergo Phizmiz releases his first work under
his birth name, DW Robertson's Disco Caroussel, a demented ode to the
power of mechanical music.
''Everybody knows that mechanical music is the highest form of
entertainment, that's why the fairground, that age old
uber-entertainment, rang with the chaotic splendour of Barrel Organs,
Orchestrions, Bellenoens and Serinettes.
In the 20th century, as the delicate mechanisms of automata fell out
of favour to the machismo of electricity, all the music-boxes left the
funfair, to be usurped by Euro-Techno.
"Disco Carousel" is an attempt to redress this balance with a little
bit of time travel, a little bit of tlc, and atomic fusion between the
discreet windings of the Pianola and the whirring innards of the
computing-machine.
Each piece is "Programme Music", and comes with a title that should
take you straight to the electro-mechanical fairground you've always
dreamed of. You can ride the big dipper, the ghost train, ace the
shooting gallery, win a prize. In the safe knowledge that, all around
your head, in multiple permutations, the highest form of entertainment
is taking place.'' DW Robertson, 2016
A collage opera Produced by Mahogany Opera Group in association with Sound and Music
Alone in his Manhattan research
laboratory, Raymond Scott, the father of electronic music, is developing
a machine to generate random musical patterns. When one of his devices
accidentally tears a hole in the universe, it begins a fantastical
space-music-history-sci-fi-gameshow encounter that brings him face to
face with classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.dk/2015/09/billiards-collage-opera-at-kings-college.html
What the world undoubtedly needs in these troubled times is a massive,
epic concept album about the apocalypse, conspiracy theories, and
[social]networking. This is that album.
Given that it has been proposed Nibiru is going to smash and obliterate
the earth in mid December 2017, this album has only a few days to be
listened to. You'd better dig in.
Smash-ups of spoken-word, sound-collage, electronic music, live
instruments, and the best of Youtube. This is your party as Rome burns.
Wrap up warm.
NIBIRU! is a production of the end-of-the-world renowned operatic abomination Ergo Phizmiz (Public Limited Company).
c33 prime musical slices from prolific composer, theatre director,
film-maker, writer and collagist Dominic Robertson / Ergo Phizmiz (PLC),
recorded between 2008-2016, from scores for theatre, puppetry,
radioplays, and opera.
Running across the gamut of compositional processes, pieces of
instrumental music, electronic atmospheres, and sound-collage
adventures, the album is a series of sonic cartoons that, taken out of
their original contexts, summon up marvellous imaginary animations.
Close your eyes and try it!
The pieces included on this compilation come from the radioplays "Paul
Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me", "Conversations With Birds",
"Sonora Mystery", their own theatre pieces "Gargantua", "The Third
Policeman", "Gala", "The Mourning Show", "Fulcanelli's Shoes", "A
Fairytale of World War II", and the puppetry of Patrick Sims "La Puce de
Neige", and "The Old Man of the Mountain".
"Music for Theatre, Radio and Puppets" is part of the ongoing emptying
of the archives of the Public Limited Company known in the commonplace
as Ergo Phizmiz, a division of Avant Hard Productions Amen, and may
hymns always be tap danced to.
. . . "This is an AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE release by Ergo Phizmiz (PLC), who has
been releasing wildly innovative music under-the-radar for 20 years and
has been given constant short shrift by the music industry, and now
finds themselves in an appalling financial situation and facing
homelessness for the umpteenth time. You will find that the "songs" used
here are mere frameworks around which to hang all manner of original
composition and sonic wizardry. Support this release whilst you can
before it is taken down by the monsters, and help independent DIY art
thrive in the Brexit cultural wasteland. Because you're worth it."
"Hey crazy kids, here's an idea: instead of fretting about the crazy algorithmic fun the corporations are having with copyright law, why don't we just fuck around and have fun with it ourselves and attempt to infringe major label copyrights in the most super utopian crazy ways possible. Music progresses through imitation and transformation, big boys and girls steal and alter, get used to it. Now breathe in, dance about in new ways, and be nice to people. See, it isn't hard....."
"At the end of time you might aswell have a knees up and celebrate the Xmas one last time with these smashed up super-disco mixes of all your favourite festive smashshits by Ergo Phizmiz (PLC)."
"Whilst society collapses around us, we need "Music Without Structural Integrity", compositions that fall apart and reconstitute themselves in whatever way they bloody well feel like. Combining original composition using electronically manipulated and edited acoustic instruments, with remixes of the biggest and greatest stars from the pop, avant-garde and free jazz worlds, "Music Without Structural Integrity" is a sledgehammer across the 21st century musical landscape that cracks it like a particularly worrying ice-shelf. Grab your favourite tipple, pop its head off, and enjoy the decline, maybe we will have a good idea and make something new. Until then, I am, as ever, your humble servant."
The soundtrack to Iain Chamber's film "The Life and Dreams of Ergo
Phizmiz", which premieres at Doc'n'Roll Festival, November 8th 2020,
then onto Soundwatch Festival, Berlin. The film is also included in
Vision Du Reel's Media Library.
This soundtrack comes with a bonus album of live recordings made by Iain Chambers of Ergo Phizmiz performing between 2010-2020.
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Since her hiatus from the heady world of the music-business, chanteuse Celine Dion has taken the way of the gentle-person and thrown herself headlong into the Sport of Golf.
It is rumoured on the internet-world-land that, due to her 16 handicap, Celine will NEVER be able to become
one of the world's top celebrity golfers.
Here at Ergo Phizmiz International Operations we disagree, and the aim of this release is to provide Celine with as much musical encouragement to improve her handicap and show the world of celebrity golf just what the woman
with the golden voice is capable of behind a club.
- Ho Ho Ho !
"Billiards" is an electronic opera by Ergo Phizmiz, developed through an Embedded residency with Mahogany Opera Group and Sound & Music, about a meeting deep in space between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Raymond Scott, the father of electronic music.
This album comprises instrumentals and alternative versions of compositions from the score. Created using harpsichord, electronics, and the works of Mozart & Scott.
The music of Raymond Scott is used with the kind permission of the splendid folks of the Raymond Scott Archive.
Harmoniums fly through the air and clash with electric guitars, woodblocks of all shapes and sizes judder against one another, great big airships of the history of music explode into one another. Then all the world went dark. Because some folk can."
I grow old I grow old, I will wear the bottom of my trousers rolled,
and so on..."
Thankyou for joining me for the ride. And fret ye not, there are hundreds of hours of music online, and hundreds more still unreleased. At some point we'll empty out the vaults in a massive splat of audio and video.
This blog will remain online as an archive.
A re-baptism / un-baptism took place at the recent performances of "Billiards" with Mahogany Opera Group. I will be back in further incarnations. You just wait and see what happens next.
Until then.....
Discrepant
Billiards
A collage operaProduced by Mahogany Opera Group in association with Sound and Music
Alone in his Manhattan research laboratory, Raymond Scott, the father of electronic music, is developing a machine to generate random musical patterns. When one of his devices accidentally tears a hole in the universe, it begins a fantastical space-music-history-sci-fi-gameshow encounter that brings him face to face with classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.dk/2015/09/billiards-collage-opera-at-kings-college.html
released February 8, 2018
released December 13, 2017
What the world undoubtedly needs in these troubled times is a massive, epic concept album about the apocalypse, conspiracy theories, and [social]networking. This is that album.
Given that it has been proposed Nibiru is going to smash and obliterate the earth in mid December 2017, this album has only a few days to be listened to. You'd better dig in.
Smash-ups of spoken-word, sound-collage, electronic music, live instruments, and the best of Youtube. This is your party as Rome burns. Wrap up warm.
NIBIRU! is a production of the end-of-the-world renowned operatic abomination Ergo Phizmiz (Public Limited Company).
Running across the gamut of compositional processes, pieces of instrumental music, electronic atmospheres, and sound-collage adventures, the album is a series of sonic cartoons that, taken out of their original contexts, summon up marvellous imaginary animations. Close your eyes and try it!
The pieces included on this compilation come from the radioplays "Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me", "Conversations With Birds", "Sonora Mystery", their own theatre pieces "Gargantua", "The Third Policeman", "Gala", "The Mourning Show", "Fulcanelli's Shoes", "A Fairytale of World War II", and the puppetry of Patrick Sims "La Puce de Neige", and "The Old Man of the Mountain".
"Music for Theatre, Radio and Puppets" is part of the ongoing emptying of the archives of the Public Limited Company known in the commonplace as Ergo Phizmiz, a division of Avant Hard Productions Amen, and may hymns always be tap danced to.
Ergo Phizmiz seeks funds for his new political techno spoken word opera
THE DEATH OF COPYRIGHT
"Hey crazy kids, here's an idea: instead of fretting about the crazy algorithmic fun the corporations are having with copyright law, why don't we just fuck around and have fun with it ourselves and attempt to infringe major label copyrights in the most super utopian crazy ways possible. Music progresses through imitation and transformation, big boys and girls steal and alter, get used to it. Now breathe in, dance about in new ways, and be nice to people. See, it isn't hard....."
- released December 1, 2018
Combining original composition using electronically manipulated and edited acoustic instruments, with remixes of the biggest and greatest stars from the pop, avant-garde and free jazz worlds, "Music Without Structural Integrity" is a sledgehammer across the 21st century musical landscape that cracks it like a particularly worrying ice-shelf.
Grab your favourite tipple, pop its head off, and enjoy the decline, maybe we will have a good idea and make something new. Until then, I am, as ever, your humble servant."
In many ways a sequel to "Go To Music For The Clueless Electronics Artist With Absolutely Nothing to Express".
released November 28, 2019