about

ERGO PHIZMIZ (PLC) / Dominic Robertson is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked across electronic music, theatre, opera, radioplays, film, collage, songwriting, contemporary classical music, installations, television, and performance-art.

Below is a nice, accessible, chronological list of some of their work...

2001-2004 "Sticky White Glue" and "Zip" series for Resonance FM, plus ten one-off radioplays
Independent CDr releases on own Mukow imprint
Performances at Tate Modern, Royal Festival Hall, Cologne Kulturbunker
Curation and release of "Windpipe Moods" sound-poetry compilation CD

2005 "M: 1000 Year Mix", a sound-collage of 1000 years of composition

2006-2008 "The Phuj Phactory" weekly series on WFMU
"Eloise My Dolly" release on Gagarin Records
"Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me" radioplay for BBC Radio 3
"Pointballing" radioplays for BBC Radio 3
"Perpetuum Mobile", release on Soleilmoon of collaboration with People Like Us
10 Years of Gagarin Records European Tour
European tour with David Fenech
"Forest Part 1" solo exhibition, Venn Festival, Bristol
Lectures at Geneva School of Art, Tilburg School of Art

2009 "Codpaste", WFMU podcast with People Like Us on collage composition
Leverhulme Trust residency at Dimbola Lodge
"The Invention of Birds" solo exhibition, Dartington

2010 "The Faust Cycle", release of 15 hour album on Headphonica
"Things to Do and Make" release on Care in the Community
"The Mourning Show" opera at DePlayer, Rotterdam
Curator of Chinstrap netlabel and online gallery
Experimental broadcasts on Soundart Radio

2011 "Fulcanelli's Shoes", documentary essay opera
"The Third Policeman", UK and European tour of opera on Flann O'Brien's novel
"Disappearing Boxes" radioplay for WDR3
"Conversations With Birds" radioplay for Bayerischer Rundfunk
"Eleven Songs" release on Care in the Community Recordings

2012 "Gargantua", an excessive entertainment, UK tour
"Boojum" Radioplay for WDR3

2013 "Gala", opera commission for Tete a Tete
"Families, Intimate Situations, Opium Architecture & the Behemoth" solo exhibition, Depozitory, Isle of Wight

2014 "UOEIA: The Histories of Yodeling" opera for Operadagen Rotterdam
"Peashoot: Adventures in the Wild West" shouting opera at Central St Martins
"The Peacock" release on Care in the Community
"Hollywood: A Bestiary" Live radioplay for Bayerischer Rundfunk
"Two Quartets" released on Discrepant
Residency with Sound & Music and Mahogany Opera Group

2015 "Sonora Mystery" Radioplay for Bayerischer Rundfunk
European tour of one-person operas "Vogel Europa" "Mills/Boon vs Merz Barn"

2016 "The United Kingdom of Earth", community music theatre for Worm Avant Garde Institute
"Disco Carousel" released on Discrepant

2017 IG Witzelsucht "Sometimes Puns Are a Sign of a Damaged Brain" release on Knockemdead
/ Megaphone Records
Tour of "Mozart vs Machine", opera collaboration with Mahogany Opera group

2018 "Animalium Kepler 22B" Radioplay for Bayerischer Rundfunk
"NIBIRU!" concept album and live community spoken-word techno opera, RADA Studios