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Neptune (American band)

Neptune (American band) is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Neptune (American band) rather than just read about it. In short: Neptune is an experimental / industrial noise rock band originally hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout its 30+ year history, the band has largely operated as a collective, not only by employing a rotating membership, but also often collaborating with other musicians and artists both live and on record.

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Reference excerpt

Neptune is an experimental / industrial noise rock band originally hailing from Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout its 30+ year history, the band has largely operated as a collective, not only by employing a rotating membership, but also often collaborating with other musicians and artists both live and on record. They are noted for having built their custom-made instruments out of scrap steel, found-objects and various other recycled materials. The instruments themselves can be heavy and foreboding "self-made from antiquated machines and scrap metal, forged at extreme angles like props from a German expressionist film." A reviewer once said of the band: "Neptune really do accurately approximate in their music the tragic and violent desolation of the auto graveyards from which they draw their raw materials." While another wrote: "Neptune's closest comparison could only be themselves."

Band history Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a sculpture project by Boston artist/musician Jason Sanford, who forged the band's haphazard guitars and reluctant drums from scrap steel and found objects. Over the years the instruments have evolved to incorporate oscillators and other electronic devices as band "have integrated some really smart looking industrial class synthesizer gear" into their noise-making arsenal. Twelve (+) lineups, Thirty-three releases and hundreds of instruments later, the band continues to wrench its sound spatter on self-built instruments to often confounded audiences around the world. As of 2024, the band has played over 700 shows, with a recent US tour in June 2023. Having toured extensively, Neptune has shared stages with "a variety of artists such as The Ex, Mission of Burma, Ut, Oneida, Lightning Bolt, The Flaming Lips, Blonde Redhead, Melt-Banana, Charles Hayward, Liars, Black Dice, James Chance & the Contortions, Gang Gang Dance, Six Finger Satellite, Wolf Eyes.", Enon, Deerhunter, Erase Errata, Arab on Radar and Parts & Labor. As of 2020, Neptune again consists of Sanford along with long-time Neptune collaborators Mark William Pearson and Daniel Paul Boucher.

Personnel Current members

Jason Sidney Sanford – microtonal guitar, guitar, baritone guitar, bass, violin, gas can ukulele, electric thumb piano, electronics, foot-controlled synthesizer, bass lamellophone, spring harp, percussion, feedback organ, tupperphone, radios, vocals (1994 - present) Mark William Pearson – macrotonal guitar-bass, guitar, baritone guitar, 4-string slide, bass, electronics, large electric spring, percussion, amplified drums, tape machine, tape manipulation, push-button telephone, vocals (2001 - 2014, 2015, 2020 - present) Daniel Paul Boucher – drums, amplified drums, amplified sawblades, amplified metal toms, found object percussion, saw blade xylophone, oscillators, electronics, violin, gas can ukulele, washboard, vocals (2000 - 2010, 2015, 2020 - present) Past members / frequent collaborators

Darryl Blood - drums, violin, backing vocals (1994 - 1997) Doug Last - percussion, empties (empty glass bottles shattered on a cinderblock with attached microphone), backing vocals (1994 - 1997) Carl Wieting- bass, guitar, ukulele, backing vocals (1994 - 1997) Gregory Kenney - guitar, vocals, drums (1994 - 1998) Malcolm Felder - drums (1997 - 1998) Jessica Rylan - bass, vocals, electronics (1997-1999, 2001, 2006-2007) Kevin Micka – recording engineer, live sound engineer (1997 - present), drums, guitar, electronics, backing vocals (2006 - 2016) Adrienne Jorge - live projections / films, documentarian (1998 - 1999, 2002 - 2005) Adam Scotto - drums (1999) Joel Hamburger - bass (2000) Christopher Huggins - guitar, vocals, bass (2000 - 2002) John Douglas Manson - drums, percussion, vocals (2000 - 2004) Justin Kaiden - bass (2001) Farhad Ebrihimi - drums, electronics (2007; 2010 - 2011) Justin Earl Kipp - percussion, bowed cable, electronics (2016) Jesse Gallagher - percussion, bowed cable, electronics (2016) Collaborators

David Gerhard Utzinger - live sound engineer (2005), percussion (2008) Kenneth Wagner Linehan - homemade synthesizer (2008) Regina Greene - vocals (obscenities), management / spiritual guidance (2005 - 2013) Mary Staubitz - electronics, tone generator, feedback (2006 - 2007) Martina Rossi - guitar (live) (2009)

Discography Studio albums

Studio Recordings, May MCMXCVII (Archenemy Records, 1999) The Ballet of Process (Mister Records / 100% Breakfast Records, 2002) Intimate Lightning (Mister Records / 100% Breakfast Records, 2004) Patterns (Self-Release Records (US) / Fortissimo Records (UK) / Les Potagers Natures (France), 2006) Neptune (Golden Lab Records (UK), 2007) Gong Lake (Radium / Table of the Elements, February 2008) 18:40/19:19 (Magnetism Crafts / Wrong Way Archival Bureau, 2010) Silent Partner (Northern Spy Records, 2011) Msg rcvd (Northern Spy Records, 2012) Mother of Millions (Wrong Way Archival Bureau, 2021) Play Some Music (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, 2026) Compilation albums

Green White Red (Magnetism Crafts / Wrong Way Archival Bureau, 2024) Live albums

Live on Pipeline, WMBR 03.16.04 (Neptune self-released, 2019) Live at SCSI Cell 11.20.2004 (Neptune self-released, 2021) Live at The Ugly House 12.18.94 (First Performance) (Neptune self-released, 1995 / mastered/reissued, 2024) Mini-albums

Mice and Worms (Magnetism Crafts / Self-Release Records, 2005) Cave Drawings (Self-Release Records / Magnetism Crafts, January 2011) EPs

Knife Fight E.P., 7-inch (Neptune self-released, 1996) Neptune., 3-song cassette (Neptune self-released, 1998) Basement Recordings E.P., 6-song CD (Mister Records, 2001) Green Cassette, 5-song C30 cassette (Magnetism Crafts, 2005) 3" CDR, 5-song CD-R (Magnetism Crafts, 2005) White Cassette, 4-song C20 cassette (Wrong Way Archival Bureau, 2005) 3" Collage CDR, 2 songs (Magnetism Crafts / Self-Release Records, 2006) Red Cassette, 6 improvisations, C30 cassette (Magnetism Crafts, 2006) 3" CDR, 3-song 3" CD-R (Hiddenbirdhouse, 2006) Tell My People to Go Home, 4-song EP, split release w/ One Second Riot, LP only (Distile Records, 2007) Paris Green, 5-track CD-R (Magnetism Crafts / Wrong Way Archival Bureau, 2007) Roman Business, 4 songs, C20 cassette (NOFI [Italy], March 2009) Singles

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Neptune (American band) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Neptune (American band)

In research: Neptune (American band) appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Neptune (American band) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Neptune (American band) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American art rock groups, American experimental musical groups, American experimental rock groups, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Neptune (American band) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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