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Pet The Tiger: Hail The Traveler (Public Eyesore)

Bay Area instrument inventor David Samas leads Pet The Tiger, a collective ensemble primarily of instrument inventors, augmented with original ceramic flutes and occasionally Samas' voice, the unique quality of their sound recalling Harry Partch or Harry Bertoia, here in four major works of multiple parts performed in a mixture of composed and improvised approaches; fascinating.
 

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David Samas-invented instruments, voice

Tom Nunn-invented instruments

Bart Hopkin-invented instruments

Peter Whitehead-invented instruments, voice

Bryan Day-invented instruments

Susan Rawcliffe-original ceramic flutes

Stephen Parris-Gamelan Encinal

Daniel Schmidt-Gamelan Encinal

Derek Drudge-Gamelan Encinal

Kim Nucci-Gamelan Encinal

Sophia Shen-Gamelan Encinal

Patrick Liddell-Gamelan Encinal

Joel Nelson-Gamelan Encinal

Maria Siino-Gamelan Encinal

Lucas DeLeon-Gamelan Encinal


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UPC: 195269285692

Label: Public Eyesore
Catalog ID: 158
Squidco Product Code: 35337

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve, Sealed
Lunchroom Pet was at Littlefield Hall, Mills, in Oakland, California, in 2018, by recorded by Stephen Parris.

Elegy, Bardo and Pahoehoe were recorded at the Nunnery in 2017 and 2018, by Bryan Day.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"The man behind Pet The Tiger is one David Samas, of whom I had not heard before, and for some of these pieces he receives help from various people, all creators of new instruments. These are Tom Nunn, Bart Hopkin, Gamelan Encinal, Peter Whitehead, Susan Rawcliffe, and Bryan Day. Pet The Tiger is also an ensemble; the information is ambiguous here. On Bandcamp, everything is labelled as "invented instruments", except Susan Rawcliffe playing "original ceramic flutes" and Samas occasionally using his voice. The music is mainly played improvised, but there is, perhaps, some coherent playing. Many evolve around scratching, scraping and blowing on objects, strings, and surfaces. Yet, despite that, these pieces have quite an attractive amount of variation. Some pieces are drone-like, modern composition-like and some straightforward die-hard improvisation, occasionally erupting into noise ('River Of Terror'; appropriate title there!). There is even a folk song in the guise of 'Under theGun', with elements of free improv but a song of pop music qualities. It shows the tremendous variation in approaches, which works well for this kind of music. Even when not every track is a winner per se, it works very well. This is a long album with nearly 70 minutes, but so be it. Overall a most pleasant trip, of which only one thing is lacking: the visual component. I'd love to see these instruments!"-Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly


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Artist Biographies

"David Samas is a composer, cosmologist, poet, painter, performer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4; he is a practitioner and professor of arcane healing technologies and traditional magics- a field which includes massage, herbalism, hypnotherapy, psychoacoustics and shamanism. He has a BFA from the SF Art Institute in conceptual art and an MFA in poetics from the New College of California. As a young man he performed with the SF Boys Chorus, the SF Opera and the SF Symphony with which he won a GRAMMY for the "best classical recording" of 1994. He also makes sacred geometry amulets and talismans and is an excellent cook.

He currently focuses on inventing instruments and extended vocal techniques. He is the creator of the Superb Metallophone, the Gamelan Piano, the Crystalithaphone, Glassilalia and a number of musical paintings which serve as sets, orchestras and characters for his inventive operas and shadow plays. He uses Tuvan overtone singing and Tibetan deep chanting along with a host of birdsongs, whale songs, howling and polyphonic split tones to weave a dense tapestry of unusual sounds.

David Samas is also the impresario and host of the turquoise yantra grotto-a house concert series for avant improvisers and invented instrumentalists with a focus on ethno-modernism and extended techniques. TYG holds a monthly event which is part concert, part art opening and part social club, with Chinese tea service, near Glen Canyon in San Francisco. In that context has collaborated most with Joe Lasqo, Bart Hopkin, Bob Marsh and Tom Nunn.

He currently plays with Pet the Tiger, an improvised acoustic noise band for invented instruments with Jen Baker, Grace Renaud, Ash Ritter, and Marshall White."

-Bay Improviser (https://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/349/david-samas)
11/8/2024

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"Bryan Day is a sonic adventurer, painter and inventor of curious things based in the East Bay. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components and amplified materials that you might find in your garage or your great uncle's office, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. He spends his days designing, building and fixing exhibits at the Exploratorium and Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco.

Festival appearances include Soundwave Festival (San Francisco, 2014), Thingamajigs Festival (San Francisco, 2013), New Media Sound and Art Summit (Austin, 2013), Milwaukee Noise Festival (Milwaukee, 2012), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2011), Heliotrope Festival (Minneapolis, 2010), Megapolis Festival (Baltimore, 2010), Denver Noise Festival (Denver, 2010), Transistor Festival (Denver, 2009), Quiet Music Festival (Cork, Ireland, 2008), Sonic Circuits Festival (Washington, D.C., 2007), Soundfield Festival (Chicago, 2005), and SubZero Festival (Minneapolis, 2001). Day has over 40 solo and ensemble releases on labels such as Creative Sources, Bug Incision, Friends and Relatives, Gameboy, Freedom From, Digitalis, Featherspines, Neus-318, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Unread, and Seagull.

Since 1997 he has been running the new music label Public Eyesore and its sister label Eh?. Through Public Eyesore and Eh?, Day has produced and released over 250 albums of improvised and experimental music by artists from all over the globe and organized numerous tours for American artists in Japan. Day curated regular events at Canessa Gallery, Meridian Galley, Clawfoot House (Lincoln, 2009-2010), Tiptop Haus (Omaha, 2005-2007), The Magic Theatre (Omaha, 2006) and Sitting Still, Going Places first Friday series at Chatterbox (Lincoln, 2006-2007).

Day facilitates invented instrument building workshops, both to build instruments of his own design and freeform workshops that focus on building sound objects using repurposed materials. These include Whiskerphone, Rotowhisker, Sonic Marionette, Sound Mouse, Junk Kalimba and Circuit Bending. Get in touch if you are interested in hosting a workshop."

-Bryan Day Website (http://www.bryanday.net/bio.php)
11/8/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Lunchroom Pet 01:45

2. Long Emergency 02:16

3. Mourner's Dirge 04:30

4. Under the Gun 04:46

5. Garden of the Gods 08:36

6. River of Terror 02:25

7. Surges and Tides 02:38

8. Victory of Breath 05:31

9. Dawn 07:14

10. The Underworld 14:28

11. Eaten Alive 08:07

12. Captive Soul 07:11

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