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MILLIS, ROBERT — Interior Music
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After a collage tape collab with Bardo Todol back in 2022 (SUC52, Magnetic Road to Hell) Robert Millis finally gets his Discrepant debut proper, a much overdue entry in our wonderfull catalogue of lost musical oddities.
The not so self explanatory title Interior Music explores Millis obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies. An hermetic rearrangement of emptiness could be another more big headed title. But I leave the man to talk about his thing:
The phrase interior music occurred to me a few years ago as a way to describe some recent work. Its about the resonances inside of hollow wooden chambers (and hollow heads) like gramophones and talking machines, music boxes, instruments, metal containers, and resonant rooms. Its about exploring tiny audio fragmentssingle notes, vinyl and shellac surface noise, recording mishaps and anomaliesand arranging them into something meaningful. It is about my own interior mishaps and anomalies and attempts to arrange THEM into something meaningful. It also references interior design with the placement of sounds in specific locations, layers or in juxtapositions.
Inspirations include Steve Rodens lowercase work, Toshiya Tsunodas field recordings, Eliane Radiques slowly shifting ambiances, and the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer, as well as the dhrupad and kayal traditions of Indian classical musicespecially Kesarbai Kerkar and the Dagar family who have a sublime way of stretching out individual notes and exploring their endless permutations, combinations and connotations.
robertmillis.bandcamp.com/album/interior-music
The not so self explanatory title Interior Music explores Millis obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies. An hermetic rearrangement of emptiness could be another more big headed title. But I leave the man to talk about his thing:
The phrase interior music occurred to me a few years ago as a way to describe some recent work. Its about the resonances inside of hollow wooden chambers (and hollow heads) like gramophones and talking machines, music boxes, instruments, metal containers, and resonant rooms. Its about exploring tiny audio fragmentssingle notes, vinyl and shellac surface noise, recording mishaps and anomaliesand arranging them into something meaningful. It is about my own interior mishaps and anomalies and attempts to arrange THEM into something meaningful. It also references interior design with the placement of sounds in specific locations, layers or in juxtapositions.
Inspirations include Steve Rodens lowercase work, Toshiya Tsunodas field recordings, Eliane Radiques slowly shifting ambiances, and the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer, as well as the dhrupad and kayal traditions of Indian classical musicespecially Kesarbai Kerkar and the Dagar family who have a sublime way of stretching out individual notes and exploring their endless permutations, combinations and connotations.
robertmillis.bandcamp.com/album/interior-music