Ergo Phizmiz – The Faust Cycle
The Faust Cycle
or, The House of Dr Faustus
Written, Composed, Performed & Produced by
Ergo Phizmiz
Project consultants
James Nye, Martha Moopette, The Travelling Mongoose
One afternoon Ergo Phizmiz finds himself lumbered into delivering a parcel to the house of legendary alchemist and necromancer Dr Johann Faustus who, since the events of some time ago for which he is renowned, has entered into a rather quieter life in a vast, labyrinthine house, with hundreds of lodgers running the gamut from artists, birds, bird-people, walking fictions, ventriloquists, a Cassowary, running chairs, walking gramophones, and myriad automata.
This enormous dream fable, told through speech, songs, collage and sound-design, is the result of over three years delving down various rabbit-holes, and features collaborations in a range of contexts with artists of many disciplines, including Jack Phoenix, Margita Zalite, Pete Um, Angela Valid, Bela Emerson, Martha Moopette, Amie Willingale, and Zenith Pitts.
In glorious radiophonic technicolour, it is a musical-comedy of disorientation and magick, somewhere between nightmare and the half-remembered childhood whimsy of an insomniac music-hall artiste.
Please note – “The Faust Cycle” is not, necessarily, suitable for sensitive ears at times, containing, as it does, some naughty words, some sexy references, and a healthy smattering of scatological excess.
“Divination” & “Dick & Liz Expound”
00:00 – 01:38 - Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye
“The Legend of George Scrape”
01:40 – 02:41 - Ventriloquist performed by Zenith Pitts
George Scrape story devised with James Nye & Martha Moopette
“From The Toilet of Despair”
02:42 – End - Improvised by James Nye & Ergo Phizmiz
“Culinary Philosophy”
00:00 – 00:52 - Additional music by James Nye & Margita Zalite
00:52 – 00:58 - “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye
00:58 – 01:18 - “An Evening in Hell” – Piano work
Composed, Performed & Produced by James Nye
“Operatic Laughter”
01:18 – 01:46 - Additional music by Margita Zalite
01:47 – 02:16 - Dr Faustus Actor performed by Pete Um
Eloise performed by Margita Zalite
02:16 – End - Improvisation for Cello & Electronics by Bela Emerson
00:00 – 00:01 - “An Evening in Hell” by James Nye, reprise
00:01 – 00:26 - “Hell Kebabs” – Electroacoustic work
Composed, Performed & Produced by Angela Valid
“Gretchen”
00:26 – 00:52 - Text developed with and performed by Martha Moopette
Trumpet by Mark Upton
Improvisation for Cello & Electronics by Bela Emerson
“Chronicles of the Suspicious Gentleman”
00:52 -01:14 - “Fever” performed by Margita Zalite
“Madiana” composed & performed with Aaron Islamb
“Helen”
01:14 – 01:45 - Additional vocals by Margita Zalite
Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye
01:44 – 02:00 - Recordings of “The Faust Cycle” workshops at
Quay Arts Podcasts edited by Simon Perry
Workshops facilitated with James Nye
“Kinetoscopes & Dung”
02:00 – End - Trumpet by Mark Upton
“An Evening in Hell” by James Nye
Foley created with The Travelling Mongoose
Interpretations of Erik Satie’s “Le Tango Perpetuel” created with James Nye
Violin solo improvised by Amie Willingale
“The Bird Machines”
00:00 – 01:30 - Featuring “Little Octet for Assorted Tubes & Cones” by James Nye
“The Abduction of the Object”
01:28 – End - Improvisations by James Nye & Ergo Phizmiz
Eloise performed by Martha Moopette & Rebecca Robertson
The Inventor performed by Zenith Pitts
“Garden”
00:00 – 00:43 - Voice of the Vine performed by James Nye
“The Invention of Birds” & “The Circus of Delightful Misery”
00:43 -02:56 - Interpretations of Erik Satie’s “Le Tango Perpetuel” created with James Nye
“Secrets” monologue written & performed by James Nye
The Voice of Faustus performed by Zenith Pitts
Field-Recordings by The Travelling Mongoose
Insect Recordings by Irene Moon
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Contains interpretations of music by
Claudio Monteverdi
Carlo Gesualdo
Melchior Franck
Thomas Ravenscroft
The Four Tops
Peggy Lee
Erik Satie
Sergei Prokofiev
Jacques Offenbach
Arthur Sullivan
Georges Bizet
Camille Saint-Saens
J.S. Bach
Charles Tennier
Giuseppe Verdi
Argentian Tango from “Un Chien Andalou”
Cole Porter
W.A. Mozart
Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
Contains samples too numerous to name…
Written & Recorded 2006-2009
Ventnor, Newport, East Cowes, Ryde, Freshwater, Buckfastleigh, Brighton, London (UK)
La Ferriere aux Etangs, La Noe de Fendrement (France)
Tirgu-Mures, Transylvania (Romania)
Thanks to
All the artists involved, Kate, Talulah & Autumn, Jeremy Court, David Fenech, Felix Kubin & Gagarin Records, Vulnavia Vanity, the Faustus of the West Country, Sal & Simon, Matt Johnson, Soundart Radio, Chris, Lucinda, et al, WFMU, Zoe & Storm, Vicki & Peter , Sid & Maz, Jo Hummel Newell & all at Quay, Penny King & Angela Unsworth, Steven Streight, Chinky Bolin, Soleilmoon, Doyouspeakenglish Radio, Proot Records, Patrick Sims, Sarah & Peter Nelson, Satanicpornocultshop, Tomomi Adachi, Erik Bumbledonk, Anthony Locke, Moritz Grünke
Dedicated to
Joseph Cornell
Ken Campbell
Morecambe & Wise
Supported by Arts Council England
Martin Enderlein @ Headphonica
Angela Valid myspace.com/angelavalid
Margita Zalite myspace.com/barenzunge
Martha Moopette myspace.com/marthamoopette
Amie Willingale myspace.com/amiesacoustics
Aaron Islamb myspace.com/aaronislamb
Elements of The Faust Cycle were presented as works in progress on WFMU (wfmu.org), and Soundart Radio (soundartradio.org.uk), who also broadcast the premiere of the entire work.
Instrumental excerpts have been released as “Music From The House of Dr Faustus” on the FMA
Cover Art by Moritz Grünke (www.bueropluspunkt.de)
to download the entire album in mp3 [5 chunks, 320kbps & artwork, 1.9GB, zip] directly from headphonica click >>> here <<<
to download the entire piece in ogg vorbis [848 minutes, 114kbps, 876 MB, ogg] directly from headphonica click >>> here <<<
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There’s a very special edition of “The Faust Cycle” at the FMA which consists of 12 portions, each somewhat around 70 minutes, in mp3 (256kbps): FMA-special-edition
Join the Remix Project “The Faust Re.Cycled”!
http://www.headphonica.com/datas/The_Faust_Re-Cycle.zip
includes 62 samples and snippets from the original mastertapes, compressed in mp3/320kbps.
you can also cut out whatever you like from the released 14+hours and reconstruct it. if you need something very special, please contact the duke of phizmiz himself: ergophizmiz@googlemail.com
so, take the samples and do whatever you like.there are already many genres/styles in the original Faust Cycle – it’s up to you to transfer this samples into something new: invent new genres now.
click, create, communicate.
please send your remixes to:
headphonica@gmx.net
as we’d like to normalize the remixes before publishing them it’s neccessary that you send it in WAV-quality / uncompressed. you can use www.sendspace.com / www.yousendit.com / www.megaupload.com or any free service like that and just post us the download-link. if you have more than 300MB to send us we recommend http://www.mammutmail.com/en/ which takes up to 1GB
DEADLINE for submissions is april 30th.
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