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About Me

I was born in Folkestone, Kent, England 1948, and currently live with my wife and fellow musician/artist Catherine Tammaro(www.myspace.com/tammarofish) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.I have been involved in experimental Visual and Audio Arts since the mid 1960s and continue to work in both these areas. I have recently written original music for a Documentary film 'The Last Chapter' by Makiko Ishihara (Grand Prize winner at the JVC/Victor Independent Film Awards in Yokohama, Japan) and Bikram Yoga Whiterock.I play guitars with HAROLD, (Matt Poulakakis fretless electric bass, and Jeff Howard on electro drums, software apps audio/visuals). Current collaborations include Anne Sulikowski (BCOM) as A Pretty Sonic Splatter, second release after 2006 release 'It is fate that we met' and a new project with Marco Oppedisano. More details to follow as things progress, (please subscribe to my blog).The music you are hearing is from 'The Abandoned City', to be released in 2008 by PiNG THiNGS Online as part of a 2 CD 1 DVD set including 'City', a full length film which will accompany both CDs, 'The Perfect City' and 'The Abandoned City'.If you'd like to see some sites that inspired this music, I can recommend the following: http://www.englishrussia.com/ and http://seehere.blogspot.com/2005/01/abandoned-2.htmlIt's interesting for example, to open the site dealing with Graylingwell Mental Hospital in Chichester, England, to add a little visual reference to the music, and likewise for Kadykchan, Chernobyl, Promyshlennyi and so on. You get the picture?Happy previewing! And many thanks for visiting! Cheers, Phil.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Website: tditd.tripod.com
Band Members: Phil Ogison alone, and with various collaborators.
Influences: Initial Musical Listens:Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Louis Hardin (Moondog) Frank Zappa, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Brian Jones, Terry Riley, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) Steve Hillage, Robert Wyatt:Middle Period Listens:The Sex Pistols, PiL, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Robin Guthrie, John McGeoch, Robert Smith, Vince Clark, Captain Sensible, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, This Mortal Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Shriekback, Ministry, Matt Johnson (The The) Angelo Badilamente, Xmal Deutschland:Recent Listens:Nick Didkovsky, LDT, Jeff Howard, Steve Layton, Marco Oppedisano, Anne Sulikowski, Matthew Poulakakis, Catherine Tammaro and pretty well anyone I've ever played with. This section will undoubtedly expand.Film Influences: DIRECTORS: David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder. Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, Fritz Lang, Peter Weir, Tex Avery FILMS: The Man Who Never Was, Clockwork Orange, The Birds, Strangers on a train, Rear Window, Blue Velvet, Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Wild At Heart. Inland Empire, The L Shaped Room, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Bladerunner, SF 'B' Movies from the 50s and 60s, Dracula (Love Never Dies) Trains of Winnipeg (Clive Holden) Amelie, Juno.Kadykchan - Phil Ogison live at The AMBiENT PiNG Dec 2007

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Sounds Like: Pictures of: Sea, wind, skies, people, historical events, future events, me.
Record Label: the wind and you/Worthy Records/PiNG THiNGS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The List (so far): My Picks for 2008/New and Old

So, I've been listening to some old musical releases, and some new, some commercially released, and some Internet stuff. I'm a category fiend, so I'll be doing "The most etc, etc, etc," thingy. Hope y...
Posted by Phil Ogison on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

Airframe: New track from The Abandoned City

I have been intriqued by the number of sites I've found while researching material for The Abandoned City, that deal with abandoned aircraft. There are literally thousands of old airframes all over th...
Posted by Phil Ogison on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:52:00 PST