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the Octave Museum

Dedicated to the fine art of aural pleasure..

About Me

We are the Octave Museum. We make music for humans and non-humans alike. Many, many electric devices are used in this process. Many, many electric devices are used in most every process in this current version of the World.
The industrial revolution has produced the big black smoke and the motor traffic rumble, but it has also given us the electric guitar, the SK-1 and affordable home recording devices that are available to almost anyone with such inclinations. The Octave Museum owes a great deal to these sound making/recording doo dads and gadgets--especially the lovely soon-to-be-extinct devices known as "4-track recorders".
However, we would prefer to think that if you were to take away all of our wonderful toys and left us with our voices and maybe an acoustic guitar--we could still play you our songs in thier lovely, natural form, and hopefully you would enjoy them just as much, but in a slightly different way.
Do you follow?
Excellent.
It is with this in mind that we will continue to create songs for the Universe. To be able to use all of the wonderfull things that the mind and hand of Man has built, but not to be dependent upon them. Hopefully this ideal will carry over into the rest of our lives...
Muchas gracias, amigas y amigos.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2005
Band Members: Stephen Brodsky....
....the voice/electric guitars
Johnny Northrup....
....bass/Casio SK-1/voxals
Kevin Shurtleff....
....drums/percussion/voxals
Influences: Anything excellent.

Please also check out Steve and Johnny's new band:
Pet Genius

As well as our other bands and projects:
Clouds
Cave In
thee Electric Bastards
Scissorfight
New Idea Society
Hydronaut
Steve Brodsky (solo for real)

Sounds Like: the kinks, david bowie, pretty things, beatles, flaming lips, the atari 2600 electronic gaming system, sonic psychedelics...
Record Label: Hydrahead
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Museum is closing...

It is with some regret that we announce that as of Friday June 29th, the Octave Museum will be closing.  Why oh why oh why you may ask?  Well...to make a long story short, Kevin punched John...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:10:00 PST

Some notes from our trip to the United Kingdom...

'ello blokes and bloke-ettes!!  We just wanted to say cheers and thanks and muchos gracias to all of the awesome people we met on our recent tour of the UK.  We had a spectacular time in your beautifu...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:15:00 PST

New 3 song OM UK EP available for our pals across the pond...

Hi Friends, Just a quick note to let you know there will be a NEW 3 song Octave Museum EP available on our UK tour to commence this weekend.  We'll have 150 hand numbered copies that will be avai...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:24:00 PST

Can't find the album locally? Try the "internet," dude!!

A few of you have complained that you can not find the Ultra Mecha Retroactive Octave Museum disc in your local CD store.  First off, let us just say:  That smells.  Might we suggest ...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:23:00 PST

WAAHHOOOO!! Record released Today!!

Run..don't walk, to your local music media outlet to obtain your very own 16 Bit Digital Full-Fidelity compact disc from the Octave Museum.  It is the handsome blue and yellow splattered disc tha...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:26:00 PST

Why won't the songs play?!?!

and the answer is:  we don't know.  we tried re-uploading them with different  art, but that didn't work.  We've contacted Rupert Murdoch directly, so the matter should be resolved...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:51:00 PST

New record to fall with multi-colored leaves...

Hi Internet Friends...We are ecstatically pleased to announce that after a long and winding sonic journey through time, space and sub-atomic non-space, we have officially completed our album. A ten s...
Posted by the Octave Museum on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:12:00 PST