Mayo Thompson

Mayo Thompson
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Born	1944
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Discography

Solo

• Corky's Debt to His Father

Groups

• The Red Crayola (1966-present)
  • Main article: Discography
• Saddlesore (1970)
  • Old Tom Clark
• The Rockin' Blue Diamonds (1972)
• Art & Language (1973-1977)
  • Main article: The Red Crayola with Art & Language
• Pere Ubu (1980-1981)
  • The Art of Walking
  • Songs of the Bailing Man
• Megabody (1986-1990)
  • Jörg Schlick & Megabody
  • Wild Thing

Collaborations

• Ludwig's Law (Moebius, Conny Plank)
• The Last of England (soundtrack)
• Seite A Seite A (COWWS Quintet)
• Book (COWWS Quintet)
• "All Together Now" (Diedrich Diederichsen)
• Buy Me (Pictures) / Buy Me (Stones) (Michael Schirner)
• Kunst am Bau (Barnaby O'Rourke, Lars Rudolph)
• In the Beginning (Tom Watson, Alexis Hall)
• "Little Lips" (Stephen Prina)
• "Digital Man in a Digital House" (Mitchell Kane)
• Country & Watson (Tom Watson)
• Combat de Boxe (Anita Pace)
• Rock & Roll Is Here To Die (Van Oehlen)
• Shotgun Wedding (Sven-Åke Johansson Quintett)
• Day Is Done (soundtrack)

Music production

Main article: Records produced by Mayo Thompson

Exhibitions

	Title
2015	8th Floor
2016	?
2019	Go to the Window
2020	Oily Works

Exhibition catalogs

	Publication	Notes
2018	Ground Floor / 8th Floor	with Michael Krebber

Bibliography

Fiction

	Title	Notes
2018	Art, Mystery	novella
2023	After Math	sequel to Art, Mystery

Illustrations for short stories

	Title	Notes
1970	Rangoon	short stories by Frederick Barthelme
1971	Regular Everything II	unpublished
1972	"The Cost of Everything"	short story by William H. Gass from The Tunnel published in Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3

Essays/non-fiction

	Cover	Title	Publication	Notes
1976		"Autopatripassionata"	The Fox 3 (May 1976)	Full article	with Christine Kozlov
1976		"Review: Convoy"		Full article
1976		"Natural Alliances"		Full article
1976		"For the Sensitive"		Full article
1976			Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 1976)
1977			Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2 (October 1977)
1978		"Baghdad on the Bayous?"	Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State (October 1978)	Full article	on the '60s Houston music scene
1986		"Gorki & Co."	Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs (1986)		on Maxim Gorky
1987			Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim (1987)		with Albert Oehlen
1987		"What"	Durch 3/4 (1987)
1987			Polytexte: The Words Meet the Objects (1987)
1987		"Lasst sie CDs fressen!"	Spex September 1987	Full article
1989		"Some Things About Multiples"	Georg Herold: Multiplied Objects and Prints (1989)
1989			Werner Büttner: Das Wichtige Schwarzweiß		exhibition catalog
1989		"Was ist eigentlich... Indie-Musik?"	Spex March 1989
1989		"Singles"	Spex August 1989		short reviews of 60 singles
1990		"Vitrinization"	Michael Krebber: Apothekerman (2001)
1991		Liner notes	Cowws' Quintett - Seite A Seite A (1991)		CD
1991		"Blind Mapping"	Texte zur Kunst No. 2 (March 1991)
1992		"'Merlin Carpenter' ['MC']"	(November 1992)	Full article	exhibition handout
1995		"Kauft Reagan Dokoupil?"	Spex (October? 1995)
1998			Sarah Seager: Proposal for Installation with Sarong Pants... (1998)		exhibition catalog
1999		"Sentimental Passage?: On an Audio and Visual Collaboration"	InterCommunication No. 30 (Autumn 1999)		with Bruce Yonemoto
2003		"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"	Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures (2003)

Filmography

Technical

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Unknown title	co-director	unfinished film with Frederick Barthelme
1975	Mostly About Rauschenberg	co-director	documentary on Robert Rauschenberg
1986	The Queen Is Dead	producer	The Smiths music video
1987	The Last of England	associate producer

Film music

Year	Director	Film	Role
1974	Lawrence Weiner	Done To	"melodic noise"
1976	Art & Language	Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors	music
1977	Zoran Popović	Struggle in New York	music
1983	Lizzie Borden	Born in Flames	song: Born in Flames
1987	Derek Jarman	The Last of England	song: Disco Death
1996	Bruce & Norman Yonemoto	Japan in Paris in L.A.	music
2006	Michael Smith	Portal Excursion	music
2016	Bruce & Norman Yonemoto	Far East of Eden	sound design
2016	Michael Smith	Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth"	score

Actor/performer

Year	Director	Film
1976	Art & Language	Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors
1977	Zoran Popović	Struggle in New York
1980		Ghent music video
1991	Cosima von Bonin	Die Fröhliche Wallfahrt (The Merry Pilgrimage)

Appearances in documentaries

Year	Title
1979	South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade
1995	The Red Krayola in Tokyo
1996	Chicago Connections
2000	Circuit 9
2005	God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
2007	Psychedelic Revolution '67
2009	Polytexte 1987: The Words Meet the Objects
2009	Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade

Radio

Year	Station	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Pacifica	Mayo Thompson — interesting & rare sounds and yap	host
1973	WBAI / KPFT	Community Access Television	producer, interviewer
1994	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate	field recordings