The Devil In The Design is the experimental/ambient music project of Phil Ogison (born 1948, Folkestone, Kent, U.K).
Conceived in 2003, TDITD has performed extensively around Toronto as part of The AMBiENT PiNG community. This project has evolved from Phil's long history of experimental projects spanning some thirty years. Some of the earlier entities in which Phil was involved include Oberon (with Mark Franklin) Eggplant (with Bentley Jarvis, Ray Poirier, Keith Kisner, Robin Aulis and Dave Harrison) and Starblanket (with Lorne Thomson and Jeff Howard). Phil has collaborated with various experimental artists during this time, including (as well as those previously mentioned) Catherine Tammaro, Anne Sulikowski, Scott Johnson, Jeff Sinibaldi, and Jamie Todd and Scot M2 of dreamSTATE.
The Devil referred to in the title of the project has nothing to do with any religious affiliations, rather it refers to General Chaos Theory, and is a metaphor for a chance occurence which changes a previously stable state or pattern.
In Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, Peter Ackroyd writes, "If that Englishness in music can be encapsulated in words at all, those words would probably be: ostensibly familiar and commonplace, yet deep and mystical as well as lyrical, melodic, melancholic, and nostalgic yet timeless."
As a Man Of Kent, born in the middle of the 20th Century, I try to exemplify this quote.
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