The Dimbola Mikado - Pop Classics

by Ergo Phizmiz

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Levrikon Strange and psychedelic 'pop' music made with what sounds like a wall of failing old synthesizers. Relentlessly strange and experimental, but Ergo's pop core can't help but peek out of the electronic gravel. Favorite track: Lionel Blair.

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1.	Queen Victoria (Hail Poetry) feat. Zelda Violet Star 04:55	buy track
2.	Looking for the Lost Chord 03:10	buy track
3.	Lionel Blair 03:04	buy track
4.	Furniture Music Part 1 01:56	buy track
5.	Michael Winner's Lousy Digital Artefact 03:07	buy track
6.	I Have a Song to Sing Oh - A Romance for Two Cyborgs 03:10	buy track
7.	The Sun Music Box 01:31	buy track
8.	The Sun Aria feat. Depresstival & Cantando Female Voice Choir 05:26	buy track
9.	Looking for the Lost Chord Again 00:57	buy track
10.	Furniture Music Part 2 02:50	buy track
11.	Light Disco 02:10	buy track
12.	Betty Boop 01:28	buy track
13.	Katy Perry 01:24	buy track
14.	The Mikado feat. Dr Brian Hinton 03:58	buy track
15.	Three Little Maids from School 02:28	buy track
16.	Arthur Sullivan Finds The Lost Chord 08:27	buy track

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THE DIMBOLA MIKADO

Quarantine intermedia spectacular by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends

Premieres on emc23.com on August 15th 2020

See the exhibition, trawl through a miscellany, read and watch videos at....
thedimbolamikado.org

Join Ergo Phizmiz and Friends in an hallucinogenic, uncategorisable work of intermedia art, which uses Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado as a springboard for investigations and conjectures about art past, present and, most vitally, future. Taking a heads up from the great Polish avant-garde artist Stefan Themerson and his idea of “semantic opera” – opera where the focus is on comprehensions of words, not music – The Dimbola Mikado is an immense patchwork of themes, ideas, possibilities and conversations across the strange lines that tie together our histories.

Originally intended as a theatrical performance and exhibition, to be presented in Dimbola Lodge - former home of Victorian photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron - the Coronavirus lockdown led our erstwhile artistic explorers into reimagining the work in a quarantined world, with all actors performing their parts from their respective isolations. The entirety of the recording, composition and production of this piece has taken place under lockdown, in an attempt to create a genuine "Theatre of Quarantine" - not a film, but a unique internet artwork related to opera, installation, meme culture, radio, and documentary.

Taking place online in the form of a 2.5 hour intermedia audio-visual feast, a virtual exhibition of collage and digital artworks, and an album of choice musical cuts from the piece, The Dimbola Mikado attempts to look into a bright new future with new forms and endless surprises, using the intersections of methods and technologies to create a piece of truly 21st century art unlike anything you have seen or heard before.

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