Gavin Gamboa

An encore for solo piano recorded live at Chapel Performance Space as part of Nonsequitur & Wayward Music Series.

The Good Shepherd Center
Seattle, Washington, United States
2022 August 18

Artwork
DALL-E 2 alteration of a photograph of the sculpture
“Echo”
Jaume Plensa
2011

Special Thanks
Omar Willey

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Answer Plateau

Polia & Blastema, the new cinematic opera from filmmaker E. Elias Merhige (Begotten, Shadow of the Vampire) and visual artist David Wexler (LOOOP) starring Nina McNeely, Jasmine Albuquerque and featuring vocalists Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream) and Sharon Chohi Kim (The Industry), is a gnostic creation myth told through a hallucinating tapestry which journeys into immensely desolate landscapes … what Eugene Thacker calls the "world-without-us" … while the supracosmic entities Polia and Blastema fold back onto themselves in ever-spiraling, fractally superimposing cataclysms of wormhole network (be)longing.

"Bold. There is no one left exploring new imagery and new sound so radically." 
Werner Herzog

"Mindblowingly beautiful. Pure seeing and wonder … otherworldiness magic." 
Willem Dafoe

"Like the long shriek of nature." 
Tom Gunning

"My brain went in a thousand directions, blasted by its cosmic radiations."
François Girard

This 1/1 NFT special edition Suite from Polia & Blastema is a presentation of various sections of the chamber opera score that is unique from the film soundtrack, minted in anticipation of the World Premiere at Opera Philadelphia's FESTIVAL O22 on September 30th 2022.

Auction Winner will receive: 
• a PDF of the full score & libretto
• a special thank you credit in a to-be-announced published physical recording
• equal distribution of their winning bid dispersed among the creative team & musicians who made this recording possible

Presented by
Century Guild Creative
Strangeloop Studios
The Teaching Machine

Polia & Blastema
a cosmic opera

Featuring
Nina McNeely
Jasmine Albuquerque

Libretto & Direction
E. Elias Merhige

Creative Direction & Visual Effects Supervisor
David Wexler

Composer & Sound Design
Gavin Gamboa

Singing & Vocal Improvisations
Micaela Tobin
Sharon Chohi Kim

Musicians
Gerardo Hilera
Ina Veli
Erik Rynearson
John Krovoza
Thomas Harte

Studio Session Supervisor
Ali Helnwein

Vocal Recording Engineer
Harlan Steinberger

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Polia & Blastema • Suite

Recorded in August 2019 at the Teufelsberg Tower listening station radomes, a Cold War-era ruin in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. 

Phoebe Flockhart, soprano
Liaizon Wakest, throat-singing

Software:
Bitwig Studio 3

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Teufelsberg Tower

We can hear Moscow from here

The first movement of this Partita from Johann Sebastian Bach's Clavier-Übung I ("keyboard exercise" collection) is one of my favorite pieces of music. 

Admiration for those who have mastered the art of piano playing is fused into my nervous system. This recording is my thanks for their enormous impact on my creative life.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita for keyboard No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
1727

Gavin Gamboa, piano
Kawee’nga Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
2021 November 28

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Bach ⎮ Partita II

Sinfonia

A split track release in the spirit of the 7" inch vinyl collaborative format, 'Fair Are The Blossoming Meads Of Delight' begins with a new offering from experimental producer Genus Inkasso (Berlin) calibrating his open-source toolkit which pounds out a distinctive polystylistic sound-form of the underground, which is then followed by effervescent dreamcasts and soundscapes of cosmic drift and asymmetric klang by composer Gavin Gamboa (Los Angeles), realized on a modular synth … the two musicians co-creating jointly on a piece of music for the first time.

Active since 2009, Genus Inkasso has evolved a style into something that defies genre labels and is not easily namable. In tracks profuse with scapes and collages, you can find hints from a good dozen subcultures, the sum of which exists beyond those very subcultures. This is the defining element of the German-born Berlin-based producer's works: the push and pull of styles, leading to their own unmistakable and raw sound.

Fair Are The Blossoming Meads Of Delight (2022)
Genus Inkasso • Side A
Gavin Gamboa • Side B

Artwork: 
The Zodical Light by E. L. Trouvelot 
& ASCII Text Art by h0p3

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Fair Are The Blossoming Meads Of Delight • with Genus Inkasso

A distillation of permeable vocaloid substrata and bizarreified clavier, swinging with the wistful acceptance that the immeasurable intensity of the UNKNOWABLE, when translated (partially and with artifacts) into an earthly vessel's reality tunnel, is merely a method of momentary suspension over that vastness, in which FORMS flow out like invented conversations where thought and feeling become supercondensed into a prismatic solidity of the present (sound~waves brought forth through extremities and oxygenated internalities as if by chance).

Piano, Vocals, and Processing: 
Gavin Gamboa

Sung Text: 
Hillel Schwartz (deletions of ‘Making Noise’)

Artwork: 
Ivan Gamboa

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This Precious Paralysis

Different Frequencies

A remix of my father's early work from the 1980s. Programmed in Renoise. Part of a collection titled "Canciones de mi padre que han sido completamente deconstruido y vuelto a montar"

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Este pieza se deriva enteramente de las muestras tomadas de los primeros grabaciónes de Jorge Gamboa Patrón realizadas durante la década de 1980: ‘Fantasma’ y ‘Perfiles’. Las canciones han sido mezclados entre sí para crear nuevas formas y fusiones salvajes. Habiendo crecido con esta música, me encontré haciendo estos deconstrucciones / reconstrucciones a ser un proceso de redescubrimiento; remodelación y remodelar algo muy familiar y cercano en algo totalmente desconocido y lejano.

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This piece is derived entirely from samples taken from Jorge Gamboa Patrón's early records made during the 1980s: ‘Fantasma’, and ‘Perfiles’. The songs have been intermixed with each other to create wild new forms and fusions. Having grown up with this music, I found making these deconstructions/reconstructions to be a process of rediscovery; reshaping and remolding something very familiar and close into something entirely unfamiliar and far away.

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Canciones de mi padre que han sido completamente deconstruido y vuelto a montar

Autoretrato

This collaboration is an offering and a tribute to Erykah Badu, the Queen of ♣︎ … neo.soul sonic Healer … Baduola Oblangata … with Dallas-based artist and vocalist Cameron McCloud of Cure For Paranoia.

Erykah's Cosmic Vessel (2018)
Cameron McCloud, vocalist
Gavin Gamboa, producer

Vocals Recorded and Performed by Cameron McCloud
Dallas, Texas, United States

Artwork:
LADY BAMBS

Special Thanks:
Cold Cris Parker

☥

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Urgency Apparatus

Erykah's Cosmic Vessel • with Cameron McCloud

Lipolysis, for violin duo and bass clarinet
(2013-2016) · Los Angeles, California, United States 

Violin: Kate Outterbridge
Violin: Maiani Magalhães da Silva
Bass Clarinet: James Sullivan

Produced and Engineered by Ali Helnwein
Recorded at AH Studio, Atwater Village, Los Angeles
18 May 2018

Mixed by Gavin Gamboa
Linz, Austria
11 June 2018

Cover:
Untitled Painting
Beth Hagenbuch
1995

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Lipolysis

Lipolysis — I — Relaxed

Recorded in one take, Quadratic Lattice is an experiment in remote collaboration with Brooklyn/Los Angeles-based percussionist and composer Max Jaffe (JOBS, Amirtha Kidambi).

Quadratic Lattice (2020)
Gavin Gamboa, piano
Max Jaffe, percussion

Artwork by LADY BAMBS

Originally aired on 8 April 2021
Brainfeeder THE HIT • Live stream

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Quadratic Lattice • with Max Jaffe

Information doesn't want to be free.

Artwork: detail from
The Overturned Bouquet
Abraham Mignon
1679

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ANTI ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION

NO DIGITAL LOCKS

Recorded in one take, Puzzle Weasel is an experiment in remote collaboration with Dallas-based Nigerian-American percussionist and producer Frank Moka (Dos Negros, Erykah Badu).

Puzzle Weasel (2020)
Gavin Gamboa, piano
Frank Moka, percussion

Artwork by LADY BAMBS

Originally aired on 8 April 2021
Brainfeeder THE HIT • Live stream

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Puzzle Weasel  • with Frank Moka

An extemporaneous piano improvisation dedicated to those closest to us who have transcended beyond this plane and into the enchanted light.

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Odas A La Luz Encantada

La luz verde

+ [ 1 ( O ) p | us ]  is a new work, an algorithmic re-imagining of my first musical composition, Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments, Opus 1. It is made as an offering and on the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the original piece, which it samples. 

Recorded at:
901 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California, United States
19 July 2011

Original Performers:
Alyssa Park - violin
Joel Pargman - violin
Rob Brophy - viola
Jerome Gordon - viola
Tim Loo - cello
Paula Hochhalter - cello

Original Recording Engineer/Producer:
Ali Helnwein

Artwork:
LADY BAMBS

Software:
Bitwig Studio 3.3.10

© Tonestrukt Editions

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