Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) Today’s section is “The Abduction of the Object”. By this point, I have lost most of the narrative thread of the story, only to say that I do know what the object is, and was surprised by this turn of events, as …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) The subtitle for this section is “The Bird Machines”. I listened to part of this section over the weekend, and the whole thing again today. This section starts with Ergo waking up in a hallway, observing Marcel Duchamp teaching a group of …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) When I left off yesterday, I stated that I wanted to have a separate download of “Improvisation for Cello & Electronics” by Bela Emerson. It is such a captivating piece that I mentioned that it reminded me of a Karlheinz Stockhausen piece, …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) This section is sub-titled Operatic Laughter. The opening of this portion reminded me of something Negativland would do: use a sample from an opera, chop it up and loop it, then juxtapose it with a really cheesy latin-style jazz piece. This segment …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) This section of The Faust Cycle has been sub-titled Culinary Philosophy. The narrator, Ergo Phizmiz himself (which I have failed to mention previously), finds that while he was asleep he has been relocated in the house. Of course, it has been difficult …
Artist: Ergo Phizmiz Title: The Faust Cycle (or The House of Dr. Faustus) This is day two of listening to this extremely experimental piece. I have to say, some of the things that I initially suspect are coming true. The narrative is turning into a twisting and turning shaggy-dog story. As I mentioned on my …
