Paul Klee, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Albertus Seba, Raymond Scott, Noel Coward, Claudio Monteverdi, Antoni Gaudi, Mechanical Music, Douglas Hofstadter, Antonin Artaud, Spike Jones, Jan Svankmajer, Erik Satie, The Velvet Underground, Spike Milligan, Miles Davis, Laurel & Hardy, Gamelan, John Cage, Can, Bagpipes, Bagpuss, Cupboard, Love, Kurt Schwitters, Timbaland, Luis Bunuel, Cava, Banksy, Marcel Duchamp, Lord Kitchener, David Lynch, Tony Hancock, Alexander Calder, MF Doom, Bruce Haack, Bruno Schulz, Augustus Pablo, Karel Zeman, Paul Lowry, Alfred Jarry, Joan Miro, The Fall, Phonoanomalies for Hi-Fi Bugs, Johann Strauss, Jean Cocteau, Henri Chopin, Goethe, Woody Guthrie, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, The Clangers, Peter Cook, Jiri Trnka, Lord Buckley, Alberto Giacometti, Ladislaw Starewicz, Eric Carle, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Dokaka, People Like Us, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Thelonius Monk, Tom Waits, Paul McCarthy, Frank Zappa, Gilbert & Sullivan, Pavement, Alfred Jarry, David Attenborough, The Brothers Quay, Charlie & Lola, James Joyce, Thoreau, Van Gogh, Arcimboldo, Winnie the Pooh, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Offenbach, MC Escher, Leonardo da Vinci, Cervantes, Basho, Jonathan Miller, Francis Picabia, Captain Beefheart, Mozart, Perez Prado, Gagaku, Bukkake, Fluxus, David Lynch, Dr Seuss, William Burroughs, Kelis, Hayao Miyazaki, Eddie Blake & the Parps, Bobby Ball's moustache and more...
Sounds Like
"One of the most inventive composers around ... a musical equivalent to Chris Morris" - BBC Radio 3, Mixing It
"Not so much a one-man band as a one man movement" - The Wire Magazine
"A marvel of sonic experimentation ... Ergo is an inventive mind" - Comfortcomes.com
"Ergo’s not a guy to give you a drum loop to chew on for fifteen minutes like dry wood - he’ll flavour it with world spices, set it on fire, and shoot it to the stars." - MusicOMH.com
"A berserk electronic and plunderphonic whizzkid" - Rough Trade
"Unnerving, thought provoking, and inspiring, to digest what Ergo has accomplished you need to sharpen your senses and prepare for mental stimulation .... the road ahead is long and hard, but what will be waiting for Ergo at the end is as unpredictable as the music that will get him there." - God Is In the TV Zine
"Hear what this chap has been recording for the last 5 years & wonder why you still buy Squarepusher records" - Norman Records, Album of the Week
Ergo Phizmiz is a diverse and multifaceted artist, working across eccentric pop music, collage, radio-art, installations, and performance. His work is disseminated and presented globally on a regular basis across platforms and media, and his reputation as a typesetter and creative explorer is constantly growing.
Some of the works Ergo have created include: "M: 1000 Year Mix", in which sounds from the past 1000 years are submitted to an intense collage format, being recontextualised into a 3 hour composition; "Phuj Phactory", a weekly trip through worlds of mash-up on legendary New York station WFMU; a collection of around 24 hours of exploratory sound-art for Resonance FM; the "Ergo Phizmiz & his Orchestra" project, in which pop music of varying descriptions (Aphex Twin, the Velvet Underground, and contemporary R & B) were subjected to Amish-sounding acoustic and toy instruments treatments; and "Wholepole - The Discotheque of Erotic Misery", the first ever sound-art commission from an electronic based artist for BBC Radio 3's Mixing It.
A retrospective of his work across radio, CDr & vinyl releases, installations, and unreleased materials called "Nose Points in Different Directions" was released by Womb Records in 2007. He has also released music with Sonic Arts Network, The Wire, LMC, Vivo, Match My Foot Records, Sonore, Soleilmoon, and Touch. His most recent release was a split-LP with himself succintly entitled "'Handmade in the Monasteries of Nepal' & 'Eloise My Dolly'". Forthcoming albums include a short-run CDr release with Cataclyst Records, a solo album of extracted radio-art on Soleilmoon, and an album of skewiff pop music "Things to Do and Make" with Care In The Community Recordings, preceded by a single which features a cover of the Phizmiz song "Food & War" by R. Stevie-Moore.
Other artists Ergo has collaborated with include David Fenech, Felix Kubin, The The, Satanicpornocultshop, Safety Scissors, Jack Phoenix, members of The Bees, Vernon Lenoir, Twink, and Irene Moon. He has composed film soundtracks for Christian Marclay, Zenith Pitts, Martha Moopette, Erik Bumbledonk, and Namaiki. His longest running collaboration is with the composer & film-maker People Like Us, with whom he has released two albums, a 10" vinyl, an online archive of experimental materials, a podcast series, and most recently the single "Withers in the Waking" on Touch.
Places that have presented Ergo's work in one form or another include Tate Modern, the Dutch Academy of Fine Art, the Royal Festival Hall, La Terra Trema Cherbourg, Kraak Festival, Worm, Extrapool, Teatru Ariel Transylvania, King's Place, and Cologne Kulturbunker, and broadcast on stations including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 3, KunstRadio, Resonance FM, WFMU, WRFL, VPRO, WDR3, DFM, Cherryade Radio, and Channel 4 Radio.
Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up!
Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
Mailed you a package of CDs yesterday. Thanks to Fatherland Security or whatever, I had to fill out a complex customs form, answer questions on videotape, have my retina scanned, sign in blood, tell my mom's maiden name and my political affiliation (Anarchist Pacifist) in a sworn and notarized affadavit, confess to a series of crimes against nature, and compose an impromptu poem praising Mao.
Nevertheless, soon a small package of woe shall be coming your way shortly, as Jefferson Airplane once sang about I think.
My enemies defeated and disgraced, as usual, I tiptoe tenderly through the two lips attempting to devour me and dance on the tongue, in ghee and glee, allegedly.
Cheers from No Fears or Tears,
~~~ Steven STr8 & His Sounds of Unpopularity ~~~~///
Let's prance look askance then dance till the ants in your pants go to France. Attention: newly registered Str8 Sounds Free Monthly Lyrics Club member, this is your Welcome Message. Get all your 12 friends to join today. We guarantee you'll regret, I mean not forget, it. Also: listen to anti-phallo-fascist "More Sex" for an uplifting repressive euphoria! Patriotically Correct in every Dada aspect, no defect!
Musique à histoires, avec des percussions, du métal, des micros... musique concrète live, de films etc. qui t'emporte. QUENTIN DUBOST (http://www.dt-bs.com/fr.php?id_article=6)
guitare, voix
les chansons qu'il chante au bord de l'eau, pour la première fois en bord de scène
tarifs : 6 euros | à Comète 347, 45 rue du Faubourg du Temple, Paris | au fond de la cour | métro Goncourt ou République
Am working on a techno remix album. Is there a song by you that I can be authorized to do a dance mix (clean) of? See Live Music Peoria for recent examples of my Str8 Techno Mix tunes for local bands (Tina Sparkle, Freudian Press, Tyson & the Friction, The Skabs). Thanks. http://livemusicpeoria.org/
You asked about my music marketing. Here's the film that Gabby Skab and I just finished, a request from Pabst for their upcoming sales convention. the Skabs "PBR Me Right Now" commercial for the upcoming Pabst sales convention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPLSnltauk
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
Online Now!
![Simon ArtE [Official site]](http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/91/s_a79088bfc4db4f8798452b9794b0d461.jpg)
