Ergo Phizmiz

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PEOPLE LIKE US & ERGO PHIZMIZ NEW ALBUM "RHAPSODY IN GLUE" AVAILABLE NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON BLEEP.COM

AND FOR THE CHICKENS & CHILDREN ..... "CHICKENTREES" by Ergo Phizmiz & Martha Moopette ....

"Nose Points in Different Directions : Music by Ergo Phizmiz 2001-2006"
Out now on Womb Records


People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz "Perpetuum Mobile"
Available now on Soleilmoon Recordings

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Over the past six years Ergo Phizmiz has developed a reputation as one of the most inventive and imaginative composers working in the world today. Across albums, radio-pieces, soundtracks, and installations, his work has been disseminated across the world and media to widespread acclaim. His work is marked out by a playfulness and mischievousness, coupled with an inside-out and upside-down knowledge of his medium. Although often associated with the sampling and plunderphonics movements, his music takes in a much wider scope of ideas, and can veer between 3.5 minute Dadaistic pop songs, 3.5 hour sound-collages, deranged multimedia installations, radio comedy-adventures, improvised and ambient music, solo instrumental compositions, visual collages, and text works in all sorts of contortions. Despite the breadth of his practice, the sound and spirit of the productions is always unmistakeably that of Mr Phiz.
His music has been released by many labels including Womb Records, Soleilmoon Recordings, The Wire, Vivo, Sonic Arts Network, Match My Foot, Egotwister, Sonore, and his own imprint Mukow, with forthcoming releases coming on Gagarin Records and Slag Records. His music has been performed at the Tate Modern, the Dutch Academy of Fine Art, the Royal Festival Hall, La Terra Trema Cherbourg, Kraak Festival, Worm, Extrapool, Teatru Ariel Transylvania, 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. Ergo also mixes and presents a weekly radioshow 'Phuj Phactory' on New York radio station WFMU. Listen online (with a complete archive of past shows) at www.wfmu.org/playlists/ER. He has been awarded grants from Arts Council England, the PRS Foundation for New Music, and the residency scheme of the Leverhulme Trust.
Among the artists with whom Ergo has collaborated are People Like Us (with whom he released the critically lauded "Perpetuum Mobile" album on Soleilmoon, and the innovative "Codpaste" podcast on WFMU), David Fenech, Felix Kubin, Satanicpornocultshop, Safety Scissors, Martha Moopette, Jack Phoenix, members of The Bees, Margite Zalite, Vernon Lenoir, and Irene Moon. He has composed music for films by Namaiki, Zenith Pitts, Erik Bumbledonk, Martha Moopette, and Christian Marclay.
Ergo's live performances are chaotic soundclashes of pop performance-art, and he has performed around the world to enthused audiences. One-man, a minidisc, a megaphone, some instruments, some horns, and some toys. Most recently he toured Europe with David Fenech.
Current projects include a large scale radiophonic work "The Faust Cycle" (using the Faust legend as the starting point for a radio-adventure in various dimensions and spaces), an ongoing residency at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight (using Victorian photography as the starting point for a new body of sound and multimedia works), and a number of new collaborations. He is currently fishing for a label to release his recently completed double-album "Things to Do and Make".
"Fitcher" video by Marty McCorkle (www.factory5.com)