Octact, Tassy Zimmerman and Matthew Steinke, combines pop melodies with noise and experimental instrumentation. They sing about electronic ghosts named Laquita, millionare hairdressers that live in geodesic domes, broken robots trying to pass as average persons, and vending machines that perform plastic surgery. As many of these stories of condradiction and malfunction permeate our modern landscape, Octant takes them in and celebrates. Out of that unnamed psychic space between finger and mousepad, retina and camera lens, eardrum and telephone, pulses the music of Octant. Not wholly man or machine made, the sounds seem sent from some other dimension, unearthly yet familiar. Matt constructs most of the instruments himself; light sensitive samplers, an electrified stringboard, freguency modulators, a random tone generator made from an old plastic bowling ball and the robotic drum set programmed to play itself. Octant released two albums with Up Records, and have recently worked on some music for a film, but have put Octant largely on hiatus while Matt focuses on attending school in Chicago.