HB: Me and Shawn knew each other first. We were roommates in junior year and last year lived off campus. The idea for this band started a little more than a year ago. We had been jamming for a while, and we decided to take this to a greater level, and we thought that David Horn was the perfect addition.

Joe Natchez: We should talk about our musical backgrounds, which is quite varied.

Shawn Feeney: I started doing electronic music in junior high. I learnt piano and bass guitar in high school and was in a death metal band, a progressive punkcore band, a jazz group and Jon's ska band. Oh yeah, I played in Omnipresence, a live hip-hop group last year. All sorts of genres.

HB: My first formal training was classical piano. I was also in a progressive hardcore band with Shawn and Jon called This is My Rifle. And I've been experimenting with electronic music--sequencing, MIDI, a K-2000 sampler.

David Horn: I don't have much musical training. I just learnt the guitar a little bit and I studied the recorder in school. And then I studied the sitar and tabla, and I taught myself Tuvan throat singing, supposedly.

JN: Do a little bit. [Horn proceeds to give an impressive demonstration.]

JN: David is responsible for the growing number of throat singers around campus. They've all studied with him. It's eerie.

DH: I was in a no-name band with some down-and-outs. We played the music of Iron Maiden, Pantera, Chuck Berry... [Room breaks into laughter]