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Art, concretely considered, is a seamless subjective construal and objective positing. It is thus a human activity peculiar in its power to transcend the subject-object split of traditional Western metaphysics and to reveal such to be an inadequate framework through which to view the world. We are interested in exploring the relationship between the so-called “private” and “public” domains of experience. We reject the notion that there exists an internal, autonomous, and utterly impenetrable realm of individual “feeling” that asserts itself and passes judgment with a call for neither justification, nor responsibility.What does this have to do with noise? The efforts of bruitism, the elements of organic noise, natural sound, raw synthesis; all of these open up the most opportune space in which to examine—with an ironically clinical playfulness—the coalescence of “private” and “public.” The brute physicality of the aural is necessarily more oppressive and immediate than anything that can be experienced through the eyes alone. The desensitization so often maligned of the modern world has yet to draw a path to the eardrums—so childlike and vulnerable to the grating violence of white noise, the explosive pomposity of mortar fire. With neither presupposition nor expectation you are given a blanket of noise. Whether you, with “good reason,” recoil at the “inane” dissonance of the cacophony as "they" do, pass it over as indifferent happening as "they" do, or with an “open mind” observe, as "they" do, “hmm…that sounds interesting,” you are already implicated.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/13/2008
Band Members: Justin Harmon: synthesizers, programming, vocals, loops, jew's harp, trumpet, bass, samples, video editing; Captain Hiss: guitars, bass, programming; J. Travis Ross: synthesizers, vocals, electric piano, vocoder, loops, guitar, harmonica, recorder, programming, samples, video editing.
Influences: HARMON: Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Luigi Russolo, NON, Herbie Hancock, Beach Boys, Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, Front 242, France Gall, Thomas Mann, Death in June, DAF, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Mark Rothko, Lesley Gore, Yukio Mishima, Umberto Boccioni, Chris Burden.HISS: The Cranes, Mogwai.ROSS: Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, John Cage, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Coltrane, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, the Birthday Party, SPK (not the disco shit), Cabaret Voltaire (ditto), Chrome, (early) Butthole Surfers, Virgin Prunes, Black Flag, Coil, Johnny Ace, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Muddy Waters.
Sounds Like: Brian Eno and a pack of rabid pit bulls being torn asunder in an industrial meat grinder.
Record Label: Teleological Records
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New clips up on YouTube

If you haven't already done so, check out our YouTube channel. We just uploaded a bunch of new clips from some recent gigs. Enjoy.http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThey08
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 03:17:00 GMT

Houston Press "Best Of... '09" Nominations!

Nominate The They to appear on the ballot for [insert category] in the "Best Of '09" Houston Press awards: http: / / polls. houstonpress. com/ polls/ hou/ musi cawards09 Some suggestions for ways to no...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 23:41:00 GMT

Remix Contest

Vote for The They's remix of Glasnost's "Come Alone." We'd really be tickled to play the SXBSW party. Here's the link: http://www.houstonsmosthated.com/remix-contest/
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:49:00 GMT

Fuck it! We’ll Do it Live!!

The They would like to thank all of those who made it out to, and stuck it out for, one or both of our performances this weekend. We certainly hope that you were able to draw something intriguing, pu...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:42:00 GMT

Post-post-Thanksgiving performance

We will be performing two short, mainly instrumental, and improvised sets at ArtStorm this evening between 7pm-10pm. Tonight will be the opening reception of Joshua S. Goode's installation piece Besid...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:19:00 GMT

Post-Thanksgiving Show at Notsuoh!

Come work yourselves out of the post-Thanksgiving tryptophan stupor! Free CDs and homemade cookies for the early comers.
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:39:00 GMT

Better late than never (CDs are in the mail)

After quite a long delay, all of the requested CDs have been shipped today. Hurricane Ike put a bit of a hold on things, and the They is just recently starting to regroup. Unfortunately, the They seem...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:28:00 GMT

The They is seeking...

a percussionist to augment our live performances in terms of accent, emphasis and energy. If you feel up to the task and possess your own acoustic, electronic, or homemade percussive gadgetry, let us...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:01:00 GMT

They would like you to join our mailing list. They would like to send you a free CD.

That's correct; if you send us your mailing address then we will send you a copy of Domestic Space (our first full-length offering) absolutely free. Some of this material is already on myspace, but tr...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Space and Questions

"'Questionable' is a splendid word... It calls up a desire both to pursue and to avoid, or at any rate a very cautious pursuit, and stands in the twofold light shed by what is noteworthy and notoriou...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:56:00 GMT