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Robert Millis
Interior Music
Discrepant - Cat No: CREP116
- updated:2025-07-15
Robert Millis — a core member of Sublime Frequencies, filmmaker, 78rpm-record collecting expert who has also done work for Dust-to-Digital, and an eccentric who has released records both with the band Climax Golden Twins and solo — turns up on Discrepant, the fringe experimental label based between Lisbon and Tenerife. Interior Music explores the hidden sounds and their anomalies that have fascinated him for years.
Track List
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1. Regina Regina
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2. Mr Hammer How Dare You
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3. Truncation (ethnography)
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4. The Last Dream of the Year
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5. Ludwig
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6. Hikikomori
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7. Thin As A Beam of Moonlight (Interior Music)
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8. An Anthropology of Automatons

A work about the resonance found inside hollow boxes (and hollow heads): gramophones, music boxes, instruments, metal containers, reverberant rooms. It's an attempt to gather up the tiniest fragments of sound — single tones, the noise of vinyl and 78s, recording mistakes and error sounds — and assemble them into something meaningful. It's also a process of sorting through his own inner mistakes and anomalies and converting them into some kind of meaning. Like interior design, it involves placing sounds in particular spaces and layers and setting them against one another. He cites as inspirations Steve Roden's lowercase work, Toshiya Tsunoda's field recordings, Eliane Radigue's ambient music, Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète, and North Indian classical dhrupad and khyal vocal music — especially the sublime performances of Kesarbai Kerkar and the Dagar family, who stretch a single note to its limit and explore its infinite variations and meanings. In his own words. Recommended. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)