tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60973463819711261802024-03-21T06:42:12.479-07:00ERGO PHIZMIZ (PLC)The beast with two BachsErgo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-83163868320374601872019-04-28T07:42:00.000-07:002019-04-28T07:42:05.327-07:00Famous Paintings With The Subjects Removed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What do conspiracy
theorists scream this festive season at the doomed earth?
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“He's behind you!”
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And why?
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because NIBIRU!, the
giant angry celestial body on a warpath with our planet is, they say,
quite literally about to collide with this small ball. What better
way to see in the yuletide?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is for this reason
the cream of the UK and Europe's avant-garde in music, performance
and comedy are gathering at Hackney Old Baths this December 15<sup>th</sup>
to present an ANTI-PANTO.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“A Techno-pocalyptic
party that generates a unique anarchic energy” (The Stage) with a
“hypnotic electro soundtrack” (The Guardian) .
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Join Ergo Phizmiz
(PLC), Depresstival (Lottie Bowater), international refugee aid
radical computer music pop-group Goodiepal & Pals, Elvis Herod,
Joz Norris, Consignia, Narin Oz, Mary Clarke, Pete Murphy, Lydia
Beardmore and many more in an apocalyptic experience of performance,
projections and Paxo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NIBIRU!, originally
conceived as a techno concept album by Ergo Phizmiz (PLC), was
developed into a performance-happening for this year's Tete a Tete:
The Opera Festival at RADA Studios. This new event reunites the
original cast of NIBIRU! with a whole bevy of beautiful new
apocalyptians, and promises to be an unforgettable experience of
tap-dancing celestial bodies, glitter, canned food provisions, fire,
and brimstone in glorious techno-color. How else would you expect the
end of the world to be?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15/12/18. Doors open 7.30pm, with
DJs in the cafe. Performance 8.30pm. Afterparty, with exclusive
performances from the cast, from 9.30pm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NIBIRU! is a
pay-what-you-want event, with all proceeds going to Goodiepal &
Pals Refugee Aid organisation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each song is made entirely from the ingredients listed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Editing and Pitch-Shifting, nothing else.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Computer music magic spells - Reconstituted music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Music will be reconstituted or not at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(21st century music is best served tinned).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My highest compliments to the magicians of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GABBER * FOOTWORK * EXTRATONE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is for you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is also for everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and to all songwriters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WISHING</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you will write better songs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(which is a good wish, don't take it badly).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And of course the old clich</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-dobid="hdw">é</span> of who owns the composition now etc, etc</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BUT we still don't seem to have come to any vaguely adult understanding</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of copyright law and how imitation moves on cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember when the internet was good...?</span></div>
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Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-12652024412692801622018-08-22T15:46:00.000-07:002018-08-22T15:46:06.917-07:00The Death of Copyright<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Here is the situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You are fucked, we are all fucked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You know this already.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A large part of the reason you are fucked is that your life is, to greater and lesser extents, controlled by about three large, very incestuous corporations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These corporations, as well as ensuring that every element of your life is watched and regulated, a co-operation that you actively encourage and participate in, also have been, for some time, impeding the actual flow of cultural progress and development.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where is your fucking spirit? Surely not lodged in the sperm banks of Apple? Why do you listen to the people that tell you support large corporations because this, in turn, will support independent artists? It isn't true and never was. The artists you are supporting through the large corporations are incest victims and nothing more. Feel sorry for them, but don't buy their records - they don't need you to. Support, instead, independent artists who live the dream of the early internet and the democratisation of taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pop song has not only existed since the birth of recording. The nature of the pop song is that it is something which is "popular", which is to say that it enters popular culture. Before the spectacular triumph of modern capitalism, the entry of an object into popular culture implied collective ownership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nowadays, with the full fledged sensory assault we have inflicted on us by the media, we should have more right than ever to assimilate and personalise these materials. Instead, we are locked into tight regulations that make us criminals for interpreting materials that we didn't even want to hear in the first place. Then didn't want to hear again. Then didn't want to hear again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consequently the intent of this release is to infringe as many major label copyrights as possible simultaneously, in the name of progress, justice, and the human right to imagine and re-imagine! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Songs, and songwriters, progress through hearing their work interpreted and re-interpreted. Imagine a world without both Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald's versions of Cole Porter songs. This album provides all the artists involved with a wonderful opportunity to see how big the world can be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Artists and Composers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your tunes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>With contributions from The Travelling Mongoose, Monkton Wylde, Rococo Chanel, Simon Hartung, Martha Moopette, Dirty Duck, Simon Mathewson</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Thanks to UpItUp Records, WFMU, Lottie Bowater (writer of the 21st century's best pop song), Womb Records, Care in the Community Recordings, Richard D James (who listened perplexed to my covers of his work and had fun trying to work out what was what), Molly & Rufus (who let me perform "Jolene" at their venue), Robin Gill (who suggested I cover "Sunshine on a Rainy Day" one heady evening in Krakow), Caroline Stupnicka, Pete Murphy (prolific music expert ignored by the industry), Talulah Robertson</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>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.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Every recording enclosed herein, and everything ever recorded by Ergo Phizmiz (PLC), was made with a laptop, one microphone and whatever instruments were currently to hand. Because I'm worth it. </i></span>Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-7307357008154333812018-07-30T09:54:00.000-07:002018-07-30T11:15:27.721-07:00PUTTING THE FUN IN CROWDFUNDING<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lest you forget, the end of the world is nigh, and should you wish to be at the centre of the fireball you need to make your way to RADA Studios on August 7th at 9pm, where NIBIRU! is premiering at <a href="http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tête à Tête</span>: The Opera Festival</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In these times of regression to absolute idiocy and the celebration of mediocrity as an aspiration, miscreants like us who fight the super-techno-DIY-fight find it DIFFICULT to find any institutional support in this desolate landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But did that stop the industrious AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE? Of course not. We did this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the wonderful support of Goodiepal, Elvis Herod, Connor White, David Landau, Anne Jamieson, and Tom Chapman, we were on the up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And all the way from Singapore, the super-artist extraordinaire<a href="https://jonpanther.bandcamp.com/"> Jon Panther</a> sent a very clear message...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then on a visit from his home in the North, urban legend Tom Earth pitched his piece...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Long days of pestering everyone across the media led to two magnificent press pieces, first in <a href="https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/51878/ergo-phizmiz-raises-money-for-a-political-techno-spoken-word-opera">The Wire</a>, then in <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/25038-nibiru-opera-funding-avanthard-collective-ergo-phizmiz-lottie-bowater">The Quietus</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the wide world interweb support for the project was enthusiastically splashed about by <a href="http://www.resonancefm.com/">Resonance FM</a>,<a href="http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/"> Soundart Radio</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/frankieboyle">Frankie Boyle, </a>the <a href="http://www.britten-pears.org/">Britten-Pears Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/imcmillan">Ian McMillan</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/secludedbronte">Secluded Bronte</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Murmurists-189887051055130/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=1127051131">Anthony Donovan</a>, and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/susannaeastburn">Susanna Eastburn</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And a special mention to <a href="http://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/">Pete Murphy</a>, who posted throughout the project and also added this gem to the archives of NIBIRU!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Towards the end of the campaign, we released the free, Creative Commons release "DISCO MUSIC FOR ARMAGGEDON" on the <a href="http://www.freemusicarchive.org/">Free Music Archive</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, thanks to all you magnificent people, <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nibiru-a-community-techno-apocalypse-opera/x/19059677">we hit the target</a>, and exceeded it by nearly two hundred quid! We shower you all with kisses, and your lovely prizes will be coming your way soon by a postman whistling gabber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But next up, on August 1st, tune in to <a href="http://www.resonancefm.com/">Resonance FM</a> at 8pm (repeated the next day at 10am) for an hour of the AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE talking the super-techno-opera-talk. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/nibiru/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BOOK TICKETS FOR "NIBIRU!"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE invite you to join them in the party at the end
of the world. The rogue planet Nibiru, as predicted by internet
conspiracy theorists, crashes into earth, and NIBIRU! presents society
collapsing into the black-hole and having a wail of a time as it does
so.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are many ways to join the party. On August 6th you can join us
in building a giant capitalism mother-monster. On August 7th you could
be part of the cast if you like – drop us a line – and, of course, you
can come and see it.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BUT, times are hard for sailors, and AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE needs your
help to make this show happen. We are looking to make £1000 to cover
rehearsal space, marketing, set materials, art supplies, transport costs
for our wonderful performers, and costumes. £1000 covers the bare
minimum needed to get this show on in the way we want to, but we are
more than happy to exceed the goal and for once stop being artists who
always have to cut a million corners because they don't have a trust
fund. That is to say, past productions like “The Third Policeman” and
“Gargantua” were done on budgets of about £500 – wouldn't you be curious
to see what we could do if we had £10,000? YES. Yes you would.</span></span>Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-1746025953375872292018-07-13T02:16:00.000-07:002018-07-13T02:16:08.122-07:00THE POET BOXER<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">by Ergo Phizmiz (PLC)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><br />“We do not understand how a collection of lies can be called a satire on lying, any more than the adventures of a woman of pleasure can be called a satire on fornication”</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i> Contemporary review of Raspe's “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”</i><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is a story about documents and identity. A story about handwriting , history, and artificial information. It is also about boxing, wrestling, and the art of the dupe, and the tendency of intense contact sports and high-class hoaxing to interweave. It is about new discoveries and old theories, art and anti-art, entertainment and anti-entertainment and, vitally, this is a story about that which we hold dearest to our hearts: admin.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We all have to spend a lot of time doing admin, don't we? No matter what line of work we are in. In my line of work as a sort of ineffective cultural behemoth I am swamped by admin. It is, I'm sure you agree, true of pretty much everybody. The internet has only served to add a sheen of non-professional admin to everybody's lives. We are swamped in “paperwork”.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But, historically, this proves fortunate. Without admin, we could not peruse the pages of the Magna Carta after all, and one recent discovery that forms one of the many centrepieces of this story is a revelation of recorded admin that radically rewrites our understanding not of something which we held to be truth being revealed as a sham, but of lies, outrageous lies, having been proven to be, irrefutably and inexplicably, true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />There is a peculiarity in the centre of all admin, that of the signature. A scrawl that verifies your identity. I have seen signatures that look like drawings of nice rabbits, that somehow proves the existence of Mr Charlie Dellschau or someoneorother, Nowadays, of course, the kind people in the internet businesses and banks have protected us on a level we never thought possible, and our identities are sealed, condom-like, into a series of websites. A far cry from the dream of the early internet, where ideas and identities were traded freely.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How would Fabian Lloyd,<br />AKA Arthur Cravan the Poet Boxer,<br />AKA Dorian Hope the master forger, <br />possibly AKA B. Travers the mysterious novelist, <br />who may also have been the President of Mexico,<br />and countless other forged and fictitious identities,<br />have fared in the age of Instagram and internet banking?<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The mysterious Arthur Cravan, the world’s shortest-haired poet, boxer, hotel rat, muleteer, snake-charmer, chauffeur, ailurophile, gold prospector, grandson of the Queen’s chancellor, nephew of Oscar Wilde.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Stepping into the ring with heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. The fight is a crowdfunder – Cravan has organised the match to fund his passage to the United States, in order to avoid being drafted into millitary service. Jack Johnson knocks out Cravan in one punch, concluding later “he must have been out of practice”. <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cravan, perhaps slightly bruised but with pockets full of cash, made it to the steamship. And onboard he struck up a friendship with Leon Trotsky. And the moral of this story is that sometimes if you take a punch you might just end up getting chummy with a Marxist. <br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />And the next week apologises, from a written statement...<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then proceeds to destroy a television show again.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And nobody is ever quite sure what is happening.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And, of course, people ask “Who is the real Andy Kaufman?” And books and papers and films and documentaries are made about this.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is a film that purports to be “the real Andy Kaufman”. It reveals a rather sprightly, fey, insecure figure having a bit of a meltdown about a bad crowd. “Does this represent the real personality behind the masks?” asks the eager student of comedy and performanceart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />But what nobody says is, who cares actually? Why does it matter a bit who this man is? Why are we so keen to know this man's identity? <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Arthur Cravan's approach to life was similar to Andy Kaufman's, and granted him similar notoriety. A serial hoaxer, mongerer of rumours, forger of passports, dandy, duellist, the personification of flamboyance, and a notoriously, outrageously vicious critic. He was also a poet, whose life and work proved a key influence on the Dadaists. <br />But Cravan's work has it's root in the cult of the gentleman adventurer, the man of action. Placing the roots of Dada firmly with pistols-at-dawn, buff muscles and the sceptred, heroic action- hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Which is why there are now so many annoying men who think it is witty and interesting to talk in non sequiturs trying to chat up girls or stalk people online. The thing they don't realise is that sadly the language of Dada and Surrealism was taken by the ad men many years ago, and that saying “John is a fish” sadly only makes you a boring prick nowadays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />One practice most young rogues don't partake in is another facet that unites Kaufman and Cravan. They both may, or may not, but quite possibly might, have faked their own deaths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Uniting Cravan and Kaufman is their capacity to render reality malleable. Kaufman, as to a greater or lesser extent practically everyone is, was influenced by the outrageous performance tactics of the Dadaists. And Cravan, the eccentric Poet-Boxer, was a sort of Fairy Godmother to the Cabaret Voltaire. This transformation of reality into something shifting has parallels both in the atmosphere of the internet and the social conditioning methods of Soviet Russia, which are being so beautifully replayed in glorious technicolor in this technological utopia in which we currently pass our days. Hyper-Normal = Sur-Real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Andy Kaufman may still be with us now, and it is plausible that we all see him almost every day.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not Arthur Cravan, though. The most convincing account perhaps places him tied to a rock in the bottom of the Seine. But this was at least the second time Fabian Lloyd, or Arthur Cravan, or for that matter Eva, Dowager Empress of Iceland had left this mortal coil.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the early 1920s, some years after the disappearance of both Arthur Cravan and his<br />sailboat at sea, manuscripts of Oscar Wilde began to circulate around Dublin, Paris, and London, Presented and certified by a character going variously under the names Dorian Hope, B. Holland, Sebastien Hope, and Eva, Dowager Princess of Island. The documents were certified by Wilde scholars as authentic, but later proven to be definitively forgeries.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The identity of the forger was never definitively verified, but let us take Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland at his word when he said his first cousin Fabian Lloyd called himself Dorian Hope, the Dorian from Dorian Gray, and the Hope from Adrian Hope, a Wilde family trustee.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgery is an altogether different kettle of fish in this digital world. For all of our detailed, and usually extremely annoying, verification systems, the digital environment has created a world where it is impossible to verify the truth of anything.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not such a problem with paper. Paper can be dated, contextualised. It is usually found somewhere unpredictable and, for all its early utopianism, the internet is not an unpredictable environment where anything can happen. Within any programmed or designed environment the opportunities for wondrous serendipity are few and far between.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The roasting atmosphere of a hot and extremely productive day in the magic world of academic research. Some documents, discovered some years ago but only just reaching the end of a research and verification process, have been proven to be what they were - despite all seeming rationality - suspected to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But before we proceed onto the content of these remarkable papers, first a word about the style. The artist and theorist Goodiepal refers to “unscannable documents”, that is to say documents that are unreadable by an artificial intelligence. These mid 18th century papers have been proven to be incomprehensible to any automated scanning device. The documents are a combination of ciphers, codes, deliberate misspellings, obscuring text with other text, fragmentation and overlaying of images and ideas. Perhaps what the internet might look like if viewed through the wrong end of a telescope. An unscannable work of art or admin avoids being sucked into the machine, because nothing automated can reap the information. That is why all my receipts have been painted over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />Perhaps part of the fascination with figures like Fabian Avenarius Lloyd and Andy Kaufman is that they are, to an extent at least, unscannable personalities? When you can not get a handle on where somebody's personality is coming from, or for that matter where a work of art is coming from, everything falls into disarray. But in some ways it is arguable<br />that the most useful art, particularly the most useful satire at this point in history, is that which is to some extent unscannable, whose motivations are not entirely clear, whose political standpoint appears sometimes questionable. Left-wing people will hearken unto Stewart Lee and right-wing people enjoy the bilious rantings of some sweat-covered admin macho-man, and never the twain shall meet. Unscannable satire ensures one is never preaching to the converted, and that the already converted also have to question things here and there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />But back to the steaming chambers of academia. These, as it transpired, unscannable documents proved a headache for the researchers. There was speculation that these remarkable documents were, in fact, the private notebooks of the historical Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Munchausen. With the passage of time it became clear that this was, irrefutably, the case and, even if the documents did not prove the Baron's adventures to be entirely true, as such, they do prove that the Baron, or shall we call him Hieronymus, was an artist of great distinction, a master of codes and obfuscation and, vitally, that he recorded, albeit in cryptic form, the adventures later purveyed in the popular books of Raspe.<br />But there are deeper insinuations. Hieronymus, the human Baron who became a mythological figure through popular culture, also designs at great length a series of flying machines, airships, and hot-air balloons. Anybody who remembers Baron Munchausen's trip to the moon will deduce what these diagrams are in aid of. But are these drawings the work of an obsessive fantasist, or historical documents that irrefutably prove that man first set foot on the cheeseball in the 18th century? This, if true, radically rewrites our understanding of human history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">- still performs regularly today. But, as you will see later, it is highly plausible there are actually two, not one, instances of Tony Clifton walking the earth right now. One is Kaufman's regular collaborator Bob Zmuda, the other …</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The information age has become the obfuscation age. The world is full of people who genuinely believe that Leonardo da Vinci hid secrets within an art commission to point to the location of the holy grail. And let's be honest, Copernicus knew the earth was round, and yes the holocaust really did happen, unbelievable as it may well seem. Reality is becoming unscannable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The truth is, perhaps, stranger. These images come from a pile of books found in a gutter in 1960. The work of Charles August Albert Dellschau, a butcher from Brandenburg who came to Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave in 1850. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />In his retirement, Butcher Charlie dedicated his time to writing and drawing over 3,000 pages of documents detailing the story of the Sonora Aero Club, a group of early aviators who built flying machines using a, possibility extraterrestrial, anti-gravity gas. There are conspiracies, there are murders, there are the mysterious codes: DM=X0 and NYMZA that filter through the whole work.<br />The insinuation is that, long before Wilbur and Orville took flight, a group of guys in California were soaring through the skies in ornate and rather beautiful airships. There are contemporary news reports of flying machines landing in people's gardens and asking for water, previously, and quite naturally, thought to be hokum, the Dellschau documents add a very curious level of uncertainty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Whether the airships existed as real works of art or the whole thing is one man's fantasy is a question that, like who the “real” Arthur Cravan or Andy Kaufman was, will be most likely impossible to answer. Either way, in reality or fantasy, a group of gentlemen adventurers get together and attempt to conquer nature, taking to the heavens.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Poet-Boxer Arthur Cravan, in living the ideal of the heroic Action Man, made existing into a kind of art, an artform that included poetry, forgery, poverty, suicide, scandal, and ther is not much more action man than high-contact, violent sport.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Very few people knew, or know now, quite what he was up to, because he never let on, and many times his work did appear to test the limits of conventional taste and morality. An unscannable satirist of behaviour and the media, who revelled in uncertainty.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1984, Andy Kaufman died, but perhaps in the same way Arthur Cravan disappeared at sea. Kaufman confided in close friends that he was planning to fake his death, there is lots written about this of course on the internet so I needn't go into it here. He would reappear in the most spectacular way possible 20 years later. There is lots written about this of course on the internet so I needn't go into it here.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am inviting you to join the Avant Hard Collective at the end of the world. We are presenting NIBIRU!, a techno spoken-word opera about the end of the time, social networking, the collapse of Western civilisation, the office, the supermarket, the widespread descent into Fascism, and the vicious venom lurking beneath the family unit. Sounds fun? It is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God attempts to shoplift, astronauts visit Tesco, ritual sacrifices, terrible children, protests, riots, and a giant, very happy, dancing celestial body. Join the cast of NIBIRU! and enter realms of the fun. You can be a policeman, cardinal, spaceman, housewife, constellation, statesman, there is space in this production to be almost anything from the domestic to the cosmic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rehearsal time will be minimal, with most performers required only on the day of production (August 7th, at RADA Studios).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listen to the album NIBIRU! on which the show is based.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This project is a continuation of the wholesome community spirit of last year's production "The United Kingdom of Earth: A Brexit Apocalypse", where we reached out to the public of Rotterdam, London and Glasgow to create a wild, unkempt pantomime of the horrors of patriotism. And look how much fun everybody had! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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.</span><br />
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<br />Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-51645429986521544962018-01-24T04:22:00.001-08:002018-01-24T04:22:46.329-08:00The Unreleased Ergo Phizmiz Volume II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you can grab "The Unreleased Ergo Phizmiz Volume I" <a href="https://composterofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-unreleased-ergo-phizmiz-volume-one">HERE</a>. And a cover of the album in its entirety by the brilliant Pete Murphy <a href="https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/the-unreleased-ergo-phizmiz-volume-one?t=2">HERE</a>. </span></span></div>
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Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-52442670383984684962018-01-03T07:31:00.000-08:002018-01-03T08:34:41.183-08:00ERGO PHIZMIZ PLC IN 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well goodness me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I'm sure you all appreciated, being The World's Most Deluxe Entertainer is no meagre task, and it is necessary for me to exert all my muscle-power to push the broken-down tractor of entertainment through the thick slurry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is for this reason, despite the impending collapse of society, that over the last calendar year I have been engaged in the following pursuits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the last five years or so the good folk at Mahogany Opera Group have been cooking up this treat, which premiered at Folkestone Fringe last February and went on to tour the UK, with an international tour now in the works. Read how excited the <a href="http://www.planethugill.com/2017/09/mozart-vs-machine-opera-mashing-up.html">nice</a> <a href="http://www.productmagazine.co.uk/theatre/mozart-vs-machine/">people</a> <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/22960-mozart-vs-machines-performance-dates">got</a>.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The United Kingdom of Earth</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In mid 2016, prior to the EU Referendum, I was asked by Hajo Doorn, then director of the Worm Avantgarde State, to write a community opera about Brexit. This was presented in Rotterdam in November 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The UK political situation made it irresistible, though not always perhaps advisable, to mount further productions, and so plans for performances in London and Glasgow were drawn up. Enthused, smiling troops of young actors and non-actors marched into the apocalyptic sunset of their respective cities and, behold, "The United Kingdom of Earth" plummeted into London and Glasgow like a very naughty Nibiru. On which, more later...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The United Kingdom of Earth" imagined a post Brexit Britain that had been entirely cut off from outside resources, and there may not be anything outside at all. It was a big, naughty community pantomime with electronic music and language as fruitsome as a grocer's private stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, despite repeated occurrences of having our funding pulled, being stranded in various places, and all the tribulations of post-apocalyptic life, didn't we have THE FUN?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The United Kingdom of Earth", following its Rotterdam premiere in November 2016, was presented during 2017 at Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival (London), and CCA Glasgow, presented by the marvellous The Hidden Noise. A shorter version of the piece was also performed in collaboration with Goodiepal & Pals as part of their Cafe Oto Residency (video below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Glasgow performance of "The United Kingdom of Earth" had its funding pulled a matter of days before the opening, due to the subject matter being deemed "too sensitive". Then, never shaken, or at least not too fucked up to operate in such a crisis, plus a heavy night on the whisky in a glass fronted shop, the avant-garde power-station Bowater & Robertson sprang into action and this happened...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In March 2017 my musical radioplay about Alexandra Amalie, the glass-piano swallowing Princess of Bavaria, was broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was baptised in the sea at Aldeburgh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Who WAS a real minister) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Synergy was chanted</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And champagne glasses sang</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there was hardcore business</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"PL Slowly and C" .....</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being The World's Most Deluxe Entertainer doesn't stop there. The job requires I do many other things, otherwise the wheels stop turning and things just go wrong. Honestly, if I stopped this for one minute, terrible things would happen in your town.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">For this reason I continued my merry pursuit of pop music, and make a record for your delight and delectation called "Big Thyme". It's pretty and is designed to be listened to while your legs are stretching out and being caressed gently by softly enfolding animated vines.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, since there seems to be a nice trend towards releasing and re-releasing my old work lately, I thought I ought to jump on the band-wagon and lay out a cold-collation of slices from my previous poptastic albums that didn't make the final cut. This is this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of late, I have been performing regularly at Depresstival Presents, London's longest running avant-hard night, curated since 2011 by Lottie Bowater, where I present something different every month. So far this has included the premiere performance of my piece "The Avant-Garde Sport Manifesto", a pop song extravaganza, and, below, finally a documented performance of my 2014 opera "Vogel Europa". Come along, generally the first Sunday of every month at The Others Bar in Stoke Newington.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Beautiful Epoch of Avant-Garde Sport</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">A co-production of me, Rococo Chanel, Lottie Depresstival Bowater, and The Superfools, we invented "The Beautiful Epoch of Avant Garde Sport"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also presented three manifestations of THE AVANT-GARDE SPORT MANIFESTO. At Depresstival Presents (London), Vrooom Festival (Rotterdam) and Festival Blaues Rauschen (Herne). You can see these when I've done my dirty work with the footage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With being The World's Most Deluxe Entertainer comes Very Deluxe Responsibility. This year, there is great striving and hardcore effort being made to provide all of with the most Deluxe Entertainment plausible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IG Witzelsucht "Sometimes Puns Are a Sign of a Damaged Brain" 12" vinyl and CD release on Knockemdead Records and Megaphone Records. Songs co-written and produced by Lukas Simonis. See below for Lukas and I looking very lovely in Rotterdam, in a music video by Florian Cramer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also coming up, the next steps of a giant outreach opera project on Dr Johnson's Dictionary, in collaboration with Lottie Bowater, Mahogany Opera Group and Jubilee Opera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe two or three more shows, but you'll have to wait and see...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next, Lottie and I are in Munich, to record the science-fiction radioplay "ANIMALIUM KEPLER 22B", which broadcasts on Bayerischer Rundfunk later in the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smash-ups of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NIBIRU! is a
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AND
MAKING REALLY UNPLEASANT SATIRE </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IN THIS CASE
THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dedicated to Jon Panther, for sending me on the concept album trail, and Richard Kennedy, for the arctic vacations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Between writing this text this afternoon and returning tonight to release the album, I was given a new umbrella. Nibiru is definitely coming. What will we do? If the earth is flat, as some seem to be suggesting, we might be alright - that is, Nibiru might just roll along it like a marble. It could even just skim the bottom. And we all know how nice skimming the bottom is. Wish Nibiru the best of luck. And a happy Eczemas to all the politicians, to the rise of everyday Fascism, the continuing infringements of human rights and civil liberties, and the general, mainstream, wilful regression into idiocy that is happening seemingly everywhere. Happy fucking what? Tell the Ravens to leave the Tower of London as soon as possible and find another planet. I know Beefeaters look nice and all that but everything has its day. Goodbye, have a nice eternity.</span></span><br />
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Ergo Phizmizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11018492735005372576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097346381971126180.post-83601018048309791212017-11-26T07:19:00.003-08:002017-11-26T08:55:07.997-08:00Baptism<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The baptism of the artist formerly known as Ergo Phizmiz into Ergo Phizmiz (Public Limited Company) happened in Aldeburgh. The minister was Frederic Wake-Walker. The church organist was Bryan Benner singing Schubert in the wind. Synergy was chanted, and glasses were hummed. Champagne imbibed. Marcel Duchamp had conveniently provided decor. It was wet, but not sticky. Lottie Bowater captured the event.</span><br />
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<i><span lang="de">Es war ein König in Thule,<br />
Gar treu bis an das Grab,<br />
Dem sterbend seine Buhle<br />
einen goldnen Becher gab.<br />
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Es ging ihm nichts darüber,<br />
Er leert' ihn jeden Schmaus;<br />
Die Augen gingen ihm über,<br />
So oft er trank daraus.<br />
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Und als er kam zu sterben,<br />
Zählt' er seine Städt' im Reich,<br />
Gönnt' alles seinen Erben,<br />
Den Becher nicht zugleich.<br />
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Er saß beim Königsmahle,<br />
Die Ritter um ihn her,<br />
Auf hohem Vätersaale,<br />
Dort auf dem Schloß am Meer.<br />
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Dort stand der alte Zecher,<br />
Trank letzte Lebensglut,<br />
Und warf den heiligen Becher<br />
Hinunter in die Flut.<br />
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Er sah ihn stürzen, trinken<br />
Und sinken tief ins Meer,<br />
die Augen täten ihm sinken,<br />
Trank nie einen Tropfen mehr.</span></i></div>
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