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Theta Naught : something scientific
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improvisational, instrumental, ambient, experimental, indie/space-rock
Genre: Rock: Instrumental Rock
Release Date: 2003
something scientific Record Label: Eden's Watchtower Records
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Sepultura Sitting Down 8:38 $0.99
Wave Front 7:06 $0.99
Switching Theory 6:42 $0.99
Pure Abstract Dimensionality 4:36 $0.99
Engineering to the Bridge 8:47 $0.99
Home Again 8:24 $0.99
Dear Meadow, 7:09 $0.99
Ageless 4:36 $0.99
Bars of Impreza 5:48 $0.99
Kepler's Third 7:02 $0.99
Quantization 0:30 $0.99
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Album Notes

Theta Naught is a purely instrumental, improvisational group of friends/musicians that formed in Salt Lake City, Utah near the end of 2002. Theta Naught is comprised of Ryan (bass, guitar), Jared (keys), Peter (cello), Darren (drums), and Greg (lap-slide). They have played around with different sounds, structures, amplification methods, mathematical equations, computer processors, and such, and finally recognized that their best music and sounds would generate at the time of origination.

All five members of Theta Naught have been or currently are pursuing their goals of higher education at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Darren graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering; Ryan completed a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering; Peter is continuing with a Bachelor of Arts in Romantic Languages; Jared is pursuing a double Bacheloreate in Political Science and Economics. They all find themselves easily entertained with math jokes, deep conversations regarding the fourth dimension, quoting all genres of movies, and tying knots. They all enjoy continuing their education, are international travelers, and speak several foreign languages fluently.

Theta Naught's first release "Something Scientific" featured the work of Taylor on guitar and Oliver on guitorgan and lap-slide guitar. The two have left the band for familial and scholastic pursuits and responsibilities.

Theta Naught is scheduled to release a second album in August 2004 titled "Abacus." This album promises to be much more musically advanced and mathematically driven than the debut album. Ryan and Darren have worked diligently on creating incredibly odd mathematical time signatures based on binary code strings, and the Fibonacci sequence. But don't fret, they're still the same improvisational space rock band they've always been.

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REVIEWS

Theta Naught puts the mental back in instrumental.
author: SLUG magazine (Rebecca Vernon)
Theta Naught put the mental back in instrumental. All instrumental all the time; their aptly titled Something Scientific bypasses the borders of known quantum mechanics, not through math metal, as may be expected by the album title, but via the vessel of abstract, mellow, Mazzy Star alterna-rock. They're mathematical in a classical music, Mozart type of way, dig. Their use of guitorgan, lap-slide, cello, keys, xylophone, and something called a theremin will buoy up your spirits on the bleakest of Monday mornings with flowing, seemless melodicism, and occasionally will have you shaking your boo-tay with pulsing rockers like "Engineering to the Bridge," with its Joy Division-like bass line.
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