Aspects of Physics is an instrumental experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 band from San Diego. It was formed in 2000 by ex-members of the enigmatic math rock

Math rock

Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage...

 band Physics

Physics (band)

Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, USA that had featured a rotating cast of musicians, but was mainly composed of Jeff Coad on synths, Rob Crow on guitars, Jason Soares on guitars, brothers Will Goff and John Goff on guitars/synths, and Cameron Jones on drums...

. Founding members Jason Soares, JFRE "Robot" Coad, and Thatcher Orbitashi released their debut album Systems of Social Recalibration on July 2, 2002 on San Diego label imputor?

Imputor?

Imputor? is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Darrin Wiener and Jordan Snodgrass. Originally based in both Seattle and San Diego, Imputor? began releasing experimental electronic music , and has since expanded into styles such as Indie rock and Comedy...

. They tend to mix indie rock

Indie rock

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 guitar samplings along with minimalist electronic

Minimalism

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 beats and productions.

Thatcher Orbitashi has since left the band, and Aspects of Physics have added additional musicians with Rob Crow

Rob Crow

Robertdale Rulon "Rob" Crow, Jr. is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from San Diego, California known for the long list of bands and projects he is associated with, mostly in the genres of indie rock and math rock...

 on guitars and Arturo Ulloa & Brent Asbury on drums. Their second album titled Marginalized Information Forms 1: Ping, the first in a three part series, was released on October 5, 2004 by imputor? Records

Imputor?

Imputor? is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Darrin Wiener and Jordan Snodgrass. Originally based in both Seattle and San Diego, Imputor? began releasing experimental electronic music , and has since expanded into styles such as Indie rock and Comedy...

.

As a staple of the San Diego electronic music scene, Aspects of Physics has been nominated in the Best Electronic

Electronic music

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 category at the San Diego Music Awards

San Diego Music Awards

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 every year from 2002-2006. Their popularity has expanded well beyond San Diego, embarking on North American tours with such notable bands as Album Leaf, Pinback

Pinback

Pinback is an indie rock band from San Diego, California, currently signed to Temporary Residence Ltd. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow. Tom Zinser, Chris Prescott, and Mario Rubalcaba have all contributed drums...

, Mates of State

Mates of State

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, and Plastiq Phantom

Plastiq Phantom

Plastiq Phantom is the musical alias of qp who records music ranging a wide variety of genres. Plastiq Phantom first began releasing music in 1999 with the self-released CD-R Select Imputor? EP , which became the impetus for the formation of his own record label imputor?.His debut full-length...

.

Members

• Jason Soares - Programming, Guitars, Electronics - See also: Physics
  Physics (band)
  Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, USA that had featured a rotating cast of musicians, but was mainly composed of Jeff Coad on synths, Rob Crow on guitars, Jason Soares on guitars, brothers Will Goff and John Goff on guitars/synths, and Cameron Jones on drums...
  
  , Rice, Thingy
  Thingy (band)
  Thingy was an indie rock band formed after the dissolution of Heavy Vegetable in 1995 by Heavy Vegetable veterans Rob Crow and Eléa Tenuta.Crow, Tenuta, and bassist Jason Soares released a seven-song EP, 'Staring Contest', in 1996 on the old Heavy Vegetable label Headhunter/Cargo.They were joined...
  
  
• Jeff Coad aka JFRE "Robot" Coad - Programming, Guitars, Electronics - See also: Physics
  Physics (band)
  Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, USA that had featured a rotating cast of musicians, but was mainly composed of Jeff Coad on synths, Rob Crow on guitars, Jason Soares on guitars, brothers Will Goff and John Goff on guitars/synths, and Cameron Jones on drums...
  
  
• Rob Crow
  Rob Crow
  Robertdale Rulon "Rob" Crow, Jr. is an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from San Diego, California known for the long list of bands and projects he is associated with, mostly in the genres of indie rock and math rock...
  
   - Guitars - See also: Physics
  Physics (band)
  Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, USA that had featured a rotating cast of musicians, but was mainly composed of Jeff Coad on synths, Rob Crow on guitars, Jason Soares on guitars, brothers Will Goff and John Goff on guitars/synths, and Cameron Jones on drums...
  
  , Pinback
  Pinback
  Pinback is an indie rock band from San Diego, California, currently signed to Temporary Residence Ltd. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow. Tom Zinser, Chris Prescott, and Mario Rubalcaba have all contributed drums...
  
  , Thingy
  Thingy (band)
  Thingy was an indie rock band formed after the dissolution of Heavy Vegetable in 1995 by Heavy Vegetable veterans Rob Crow and Eléa Tenuta.Crow, Tenuta, and bassist Jason Soares released a seven-song EP, 'Staring Contest', in 1996 on the old Heavy Vegetable label Headhunter/Cargo.They were joined...
  
  , Heavy Vegetable
  Heavy Vegetable
  Heavy Vegetable was a math rock band based in Encinitas, California, which featured guitarist and lead singer Rob Crow, singer Eléa Tenuta, bassist Travis Nelson and drummer Manolo Turner.-Discography:* A Bunch of Stuff EP7 1993...
  
  , Optiganally Yours
  Optiganally Yours
  Optiganally Yours is a band formed around the Optigan, a toy organ produced by Mattel in the 1970s that plays the sounds of instruments that have been recorded onto celluloid disks...
  
  
• Arturo Ulloa - Drums - See Also: Chune, Physics
  Physics (band)
  Physics was an instrumental band from San Diego, California, USA that had featured a rotating cast of musicians, but was mainly composed of Jeff Coad on synths, Rob Crow on guitars, Jason Soares on guitars, brothers Will Goff and John Goff on guitars/synths, and Cameron Jones on drums...
  
  
• Brent Asbury - Drums - See also: Thingy
  Thingy (band)
  Thingy was an indie rock band formed after the dissolution of Heavy Vegetable in 1995 by Heavy Vegetable veterans Rob Crow and Eléa Tenuta.Crow, Tenuta, and bassist Jason Soares released a seven-song EP, 'Staring Contest', in 1996 on the old Heavy Vegetable label Headhunter/Cargo.They were joined...
  
  
• Matt Lorenz - Visuals

Discography

Systems of Social Recalibration (2002)

1. "Pulse Width"
2. "Level 4.2"
3. "S.Id"
4. "Reson"
5. "Everything Else We Must Pass O"
6. "Entrainment"
7. "Contact"

Marginalized Information Forms One: Ping (2004)

1. "Logo (Observer)"
2. "Ping"
3. "Neutrino"
4. "QQ47"
5. "Piano Pill"
6. "Plippus"
7. "Ohmf"
8. "Reversevent"
9. "Jatchtas"
10. "Arnologer"
11. "Scene of Changery"

Marginalized Information Forms Two: Cummulative erRror (2007)

1. "Logo (Medium)"
2. "Cummulative erRror"
3. "Monumentum"
4. "Unthousand Done"
5. "Recall Seaqence"
6. "Intrastrings"
7. "Blipsklippel"
8. "Bitty Odissey"
9. "E2 (Crushendo Mix)"
10. "Vortex Methods"
11. "Slow Grey Sun"
12. "Cut and Pastie"

Marginalized Information Forms Three: Other (2009)

1. "Logo (Other)"
2. "Level 3"
3. "Unwindings Are Sound"
4. "Oscilloscape"
5. "That Which Resists"
6. "Underclock"
7. "Default Actions"
8. "Psyklur"
9. "Junoverse"
10. "Swip Melp"

External links

• Aspects of Physics at Imputor? Records