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Interior Music
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LP

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CREP 116LP CREP 116LP
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RELEASE DATE
5/9/2025

After a collage tape collab with Bardo Todol back in 2022 (Magnetic Road to Hell) Robert Millis finally gets his Discrepant debut proper, a much overdue entry in the label's wonderful catalogue of lost musical oddities. The not so self-explanatory title Interior Music explores Millis obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies. A hermetic rearrangement of emptiness could be another more big-headed title. Millis says "The phrase interior music occurred to me a few years ago as a way to describe some recent work. It's about the resonances inside of hollow wooden chambers (and hollow heads) like gramophones and talking machines, music boxes, instruments, metal containers, and resonant rooms. It's about exploring tiny audio fragments -- single notes, vinyl and shellac surface noise, recording mishaps and anomalies -- and 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 Roden's lowercase work, Toshiya Tsunoda's field recordings, Eliane Radique's slowly shifting ambiances, and the musique concrete of Pierre Schaeffer, as well as the dhrupad and kayal traditions of Indian classical music -- especially Kesarbai Kerkar and the Dagar family who have a sublime way of stretching out individual notes and exploring their endless permutations, combinations and connotations."