Mayo Thompson

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Mayo Thompson
Born 1944
Country

Discography

Solo

Groups

Collaborations

Music production

Main article: Records produced by Mayo Thompson

Exhibitions

Title City Gallery Dates
8th Floor New York City Greene Naftali October 8 – November 7, 2015
? Berlin Galerie Buchholz November 11 – December 23, 2016
Go to the Window Berlin Galerie Buchholz June 28 – August 17, 2019
Oily Works Los Angeles House of Gaga November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021

Exhibition catalogs

Cover Publication Notes
2018
Ground Floor / 8th Floor (2018) with Michael Krebber

Bibliography

Fiction

Cover Title Notes
2018
Art, Mystery novella
2023
After Math: Art, Mystery, Part II novella

Illustrations

Cover Title Publication Notes
1970
Rangoon Rangoon (1970) various short stories by Frederick Barthelme
"Regular Everything"
"Gregory Park"
1971 "Regular Everything II" unpublished
1972
"The Cost of Everything" Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3 (1972) short story by William H. Gass from The Tunnel[1][2]
1972 "A Way of Knowing" The Texas Observer, May 12, 1972 book review[3]
1972 "Music, Women and Guns" The Texas Observer, June 12, 1972 article by Chet Flippo[4]
1972 "The Will to Live" The Texas Observer, July 7, 1972 article by Michael Anderson[5]
1972 "The Santa Claus Bank Robbert" The Texas Observer, October 20, 1972 book review by Bob Cochran[6]
1973 "Woman", "Man" The Texas Observer, April 13, 1973 [7]

Essays/non-fiction

Cover Title Publication Notes
1976
"Autopatripassionata" The Fox 3 (May 1976) Full article with Christine Kozlov
"Review: Convoy" Full article
"Natural Alliances" Full article
"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
1980
"Two men and a bird adrift in a sinking life boat... Last chance for a conversation..." Step by Step (1980) Full article with Ian Penman
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) [8]
1987 "Acht Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen" with Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen[9]
1987
"Lasst sie CDs fressen!" Spex September 1987 Full article
1989
"Some Things About Multiples" Georg Herold: Multiplied Objects and Prints (1989) exhibition catalog
1989
Werner Büttner: Das Wichtige Schwarzweiß exhibition catalog[10]
1989
"Was ist eigentlich... Indie-Musik?" Spex March 1989
1989
"Singles" Spex August 1989 Full article short reviews of 60 singles
1990
"Vitrinization" Michael Krebber: Apothekerman (2001) [11]
1991
Liner notes Cowws' Quintett - Seite A Seite A (1991) CD
1991
"Blind Mapping" Texte zur Kunst No. 2 (March 1991) [12]
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[13][14]
1999
"Sentimental Passage?: On an Audio and Visual Collaboration" InterCommunication No. 30 (Autumn 1999) with Bruce Yonemoto[15]
2003
"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger" Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures (2003)

Filmography

Director

Year Film min Notes
1966 Unknown title unfinished film with Frederick Barthelme
1975
Mostly About Rauschenberg 50 unreleased documentary on artist Robert Rauschenberg

Film music

Year Film Role min Director
1974
Done To "melodic noise" 23 Lawrence Weiner
1976
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors music 24 Art & Language
1977
Struggle in New York music 55 Zoran Popović
1983
Born in Flames song: "Born in Flames" (with The Red Crayola) 80 Lizzie Borden
1987
The Last of England song: "Disco Death" (with Albert Oehlen) 87 Derek Jarman
1996
Japan in Paris in L.A. music (with The Red Krayola) 30 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
2001
Actualité music (with The Red Krayola) 9 Mathias Poledna
2006
Portal Excursion music 9 Michael Smith
2015
Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth" score 20 Michael Smith
2016
Far East of Eden sound design 24 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto

Performer/actor

Year Film Role Director
1976
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors performer with Art & Language 24 Art & Language
1977
Struggle in New York performer with Art & Language 55 Zoran Popović
1980
Ghent music video performer with The Red Crayola
1981 Urgh! A Music War performer with Pere Ubu 121 Derek Burbidge
1991
Die Fröhliche Wallfahrt (The Merry Pilgrimage) actor 16 Cosima von Bonin

Producer

Year Title Role Notes
1986
The Queen Is Dead producer The Smiths music video directed by Derek Jarman
1987
The Last of England associate producer film directed by Derek Jarman

Documentary appearances

Year Title Director
1979
South Bank Show S2E02: "Rough Trade" Geoff Dunlop
1994
The Red Krayola in Tokyo (1995) Takeshi Kimi
1998 Lost in Music: Chicago Connections Christoph Dreher & Ellen El Malki
2000
Circuit 9
2005
God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It Amy Scott
2007
Psychedelic Revolution '67 Christoph Dreher
2009
Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade Chris Wilson

Radio

Date Time Station Program Role Notes
August 30, 1971 7:15pm KPFT Mayo Thompson: Interesting & rare sounds and yap host [16]
August 3, 1972 10:00pm KPFT Free Music Store: Frank Davis and the Rockin' Blue Diamonds performer [17]
February 3, 1973 2:00pm KPFT Houston Concert Houston: More from the Rockin' Blue Diamonds performer [18]
March 2, 1973 2:00pm KPFT Community Access Television [19]
March 5, 1973 9:30pm KPFT Community Access Television (re-run) [20]
March 21, 1973 10:00pm KPFT George Thomas and the Family Folk (recorded Sept 1971) recording, interviewer [21]
August 4, 1973 11:00am WBAI Community Access Television (re-run) producer, interviewer [22][23]
July 9, 1994 Bayerischer Rundfunk Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate field recordings [24]

References

  1. https://wustl.app.box.com/s/gm6tc0muqwrkyonq2jfu0rroghhzg4c2
  2. https://thetunnelat25.com/the-tunnel-a-chronology-bibliography/
  3. https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_05_12_issue.pdf#page=12
  4. https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_06_09_issue.pdf#page=11
  5. https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_07_07_issue.pdf#page=21
  6. https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_10_20_issue.pdf#page=20
  7. https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1973_04_13_issue.pdf#page=15
  8. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31569060590
  9. http://ehfilm.de/ehf-katalog/polytexte.html
  10. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31655802787
  11. From 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/
  12. https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/2/
  13. https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21130077270001551
  14. https://worldcat.org/title/42249767
  15. https://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic030/contents_e.html
  16. https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  17. https://archive.org/details/fokpft197208ia/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
  18. https://archive.org/details/fokpft197302ia/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
  19. https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n21/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  20. https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  21. https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  22. https://archive.org/details/wbaifolio1478wbairich/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  23. https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1310
  24. https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?tipp=1&dukey=1369863