Mayo Thompson
Mayo Thompson | |
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Born | 1944 |
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Discography
Solo
Groups
- The Red Crayola (1966-present)
- Main article: Discography
- Saddlesore (1970)
- The Rockin' Blue Diamonds (1972)
- Art & Language (1973-1977)
- Main article: The Red Crayola with Art & Language
- Pere Ubu (1980-1981)
- Megabody (1986-1990)
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 | City | Gallery | Dates | |
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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 | |
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2018 | Ground Floor / 8th Floor (2018) | with Michael Krebber |
Bibliography
Fiction
Cover | Title | Notes | |
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2018 | Art, Mystery | novella | |
2023 | After Math: Art, Mystery, Part II | novella |
Illustrations
Cover | Title | Publication | Notes | |
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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1971 | "Regular Everything II" | unpublished | ||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 | ||
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | ||
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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 | |
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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 | ||
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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 |
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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
- ↑ https://wustl.app.box.com/s/gm6tc0muqwrkyonq2jfu0rroghhzg4c2
- ↑ https://thetunnelat25.com/the-tunnel-a-chronology-bibliography/
- ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_05_12_issue.pdf#page=12
- ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_06_09_issue.pdf#page=11
- ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_07_07_issue.pdf#page=21
- ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_10_20_issue.pdf#page=20
- ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1973_04_13_issue.pdf#page=15
- ↑ https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31569060590
- ↑ http://ehfilm.de/ehf-katalog/polytexte.html
- ↑ https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31655802787
- ↑ From 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/
- ↑ https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/2/
- ↑ https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21130077270001551
- ↑ https://worldcat.org/title/42249767
- ↑ https://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic030/contents_e.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197208ia/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197302ia/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n21/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/wbaifolio1478wbairich/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
- ↑ https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1310
- ↑ https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?tipp=1&dukey=1369863