Singular Pleasures: Music for Listening and Sampling

by Gino Robair

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1.	Gnat Opener 05:03	info	buy track
2.	A Fascinating Instability 05:46		buy track
3.	Fricatives in Bovine Portraiture 02:58	info	buy track
4.	Venables on the In and Out of Course 02:56		buy track
5.	Free Use of the Halving Principle 11:26		buy track
6.	The Utilities of Continuous Joinings 04:30		buy track
7.	Catalog of Supplementary Strokes 11:36		buy track
8.	St. Andrew's Mark 03:57		buy track
9.	Ringing Systems 03:14		buy track
10.	Motor(goat) Brool 01:03	info	buy track
11.	Thumbfarben 02:58		buy track
12.	Paths of Great Resistance 02:39		buy track
13.	There's A Little Ambiguity Over There Among The Blue Bells 03:38	info	buy track
14.	Randomly Weighted Curling Butoh 05:13		buy track

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Subtitled: Music for Listening and Sampling. (Yes, if you purchase it, you are free to sample the tracks and include them in your own work, as long as you give attribution to Gino Robair for the percussion sounds.)

The title comes from a book of the same name by Harry Mathews.

From the original liner notes:
This music is improvised, both out of desire and necessity. I approach whatever drums I happen to be using as a set of surfaces which I "prepare" using an array of elements I carry with me. This often includes drum sticks, motors, marbles, cloth mutes, Ebows, brushes, small cymbals, woodblocks, game calls, dog toys, a suckerball, etc. You might consider this collection of stuff as the "score" for these pieces.

What intrigues me most at the moment are the complex resonating characteristics of a drum covered with objects. It combines a fascination with sculpture and architecture with the exploration of unpredictable interaction. This partitioning of the different drum heads develops organically throughout the course of an improvisation, changing rapidly and incrementally. (Imagine Calder interpreting all of the parts to Varese's Ionization at once.)

For example, a towel may cover part of a drum head on which resonant objects are placed -- sometimes overlapping and colliding with each other, and often falling off the drum and striking other objects on the floor. Things occasionally break or explode.

Many of the instruments on this recording, a few of which were never intended to be instruments, were given to me by friends. However, some of the instruments have since deteriorated or become unusable.

Usually I hope for the final moment of an instrument to happen during a concert or recording -- and a few of those moments occurred during this session. Most notably, the final gasps of the motor on track 10. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the score.

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released January 2, 1997

Recorded by Myles Boisen at Guerrilla Euphonics, Oakland, CA on 2/15/1995. Design by Hilary Davis. © 1995 Gino Robair; p 1997 Rastascan Records.

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