Showing posts with label nibiru. Show all posts
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Friday, 7 December 2018

NIBIRU! at Hackney Old Baths



What do conspiracy theorists scream this festive season at the doomed earth?


“He's behind you!”



And why?



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?



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 15th to present an ANTI-PANTO.



“A Techno-pocalyptic party that generates a unique anarchic energy” (The Stage) with a “hypnotic electro soundtrack” (The Guardian) .



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.



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?



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.



NIBIRU! is a pay-what-you-want event, with all proceeds going to Goodiepal & Pals Refugee Aid organisation.



Monday, 30 July 2018

PUTTING THE FUN IN CROWDFUNDING

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 Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival.

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.

But did that stop the industrious AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE? Of course not. We did this.


With the wonderful support of Goodiepal, Elvis Herod, Connor White, David Landau, Anne Jamieson, and Tom Chapman, we were on the up!

Soon the poor, poor children sang for their supper...



And all the way from Singapore, the super-artist extraordinaire Jon Panther sent a very clear message...



Then on a visit from his home in the North, urban legend Tom Earth pitched his piece...



Long days of pestering everyone across the media led to two magnificent press pieces, first in The Wire, then in The Quietus.

On the wide world interweb support for the project was enthusiastically splashed about by Resonance FM, Soundart Radio, Frankie Boyle, the Britten-Pears Foundation, Ian McMillan, Secluded Bronte, Anthony Donovan, and Susanna Eastburn.

And a special mention to Pete Murphy, who posted throughout the project and also added this gem to the archives of NIBIRU!



Towards the end of the campaign, we released the free, Creative Commons release "DISCO MUSIC FOR ARMAGGEDON" on the Free Music Archive




And, thanks to all you magnificent people, we hit the target, 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.

But next up, on August 1st, tune in to Resonance FM at 8pm (repeated the next day at 10am) for an hour of the AVANTHARDCOLLECTIVE talking the super-techno-opera-talk. 

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Wednesday, 13 December 2017

NIBIRU!

ERGO PHIZMIZ (PLC)

presents a musical version of

NIBIRU!




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.


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 listened to. You'd better dig in.
 





Smash-ups of spoken-word, sound-collage, electronic music, live instruments, and the best of Youtube. This is your party as Rome burns. Wrap up warm.



NIBIRU! is a production of the end-of-the-world renowned operatic abomination Ergo Phizmiz (Public Limited Company).







HOW TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO FOR A CONCEPT ALBUM AT THE END OF THE WORLD



TAKE A CADBURY'S FLAKE ADVERT, SLOW IT DOWN TO THE LENGTH OF THE TRACK



TAKE A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF A SOLAR ECLIPSE, WHICH TURNS OUT, AS IT HAPPENS, TO HAVE THE WORDS “RIGHT WING” SUDDENLY AND ABRUPTLY SPATTERED ONTO THE SCREEN



REALISE THAT THE UNIVERSE IS
IN THE FINAL THROES OF EARTH
DOING YOU FAVOURS 
AND MAKING REALLY UNPLEASANT SATIRE 
WITHOUT YOU REALLY MEANING TO

SLOW THIS DOWN TOO



ADD SOME DODGY CHROMA KEY



PLACE THE WATERMARK OF 
SOME CORPORATION OR OTHER 
ONTO THE SCREEN
IN THIS CASE THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION



ADD 
[ NIBIRU! ]
WATERMARK




Written, Composed, Performed and Produced by Dominic Robertson



Violin improvisations by Lottie [Depresstival] Bowater



Synthesisers performed by Lottie [Depresstival] Bowater, Lukas Simonis, Dominic Robertson (one night at Worm, Rotterdam, when I lost my umbrella) *


Dedicated to Jon Panther, for sending me on the concept album trail, and Richard Kennedy, for the arctic vacations.


* 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.