{"id":12264,"date":"2014-10-16T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=12264"},"modified":"2021-01-31T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:07:53","slug":"these-guy-human-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2014\/10\/16\/these-guy-human-language\/","title":{"rendered":"These Guy – 'Human Language' (Wood And Wire)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe root of all psychological suffering is human language itself.
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Notes.<\/strong>
\nThese Guy<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Human Language<\/em>:
\n\u201cThe Human Language EP was recorded in a highly fragmented way mainly between March 2013 and April 2014, and consists of recordings of the sounds I was living in close proximity to at the time. I\u2019d just moved to an industrial part of Brisbane from a regional Qld town, so I was thinking about my new situation and having negative stuff going through my head all the time, as you do. I felt disconnected, alone, sincerely unable to relate to anyone, all that jazz, and I was deep into a krautrock obsession so all shines through in the music.<\/em>
\n\u201cIt started at my friend James\u2019 house when I recorded a 14 second snippet of nondescript weirdness that I called \u201chuman language\u201d, and I never knew what I wanted the phrase to mean until I was reading a paper on a newish form of therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which postulates that: \u201cthe root of (all psychological) suffering is human language itself. Human language is a highly complex system of symbols, which includes words, images, sounds, facial expressions and physical gestures\u2026 (and its) dark side \u2026 is that we use it to \u2026 dwell on and \u2018relive\u2019 painful events from the past; to scare ourselves by imagining unpleasant futures; to compare, judge, criticise and condemn both ourselves and others; and to create rules for ourselves that can often be life-constricting or destructive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Biography.<\/strong>
\nThese Guy<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0These Guy<\/strong>:
\n\u201cMore and more often you seem to get caught asking, \u201cwho are these guys?\u201d when you get shown some nxt-lvl-sh*t by a m8, only to find that what you\u2019ve been shown is merely the creation of a singular person who most likely never ventured out of their bedroom in making said sh*t. So then I found it only appropriate to make a kind of tepid, grammatically inadequate play on this idea and call myself These Guy and make beats and melodies and etcetera just like every other whiteboy with a computer.<\/em>
\n\u201cI\u2019m influenced by Chinese ink paintings, Beat poetry, mindfulness meditation, Dr. Seuss, scones, and a variety of musics, and I like to think that when people hear my tunes, these reference points are brutally transparent. Hopefully you\u2019ll join me and we can collaborate and transcend the confusion of absolutely everything.\u201d<\/em>
\nThese Guy on Soundcloud<\/a>
\nThese Guy on Bandcamp<\/a>
\nThese Guy on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tracklisting.<\/strong>
\n1. Human Language (0:14)
\n2. Street Noise (8:11)
\n3. You Know Who (5:11)
\n4. I Wanna Understand (2:58)
\n5. Weird Weather (6:30)<\/p>\n

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Credits.<\/strong>
\nAll instruments played by Joe Saxby
\nExcept for the drums on \u201cStreet Noise\u201d and \u201cYou Know Who\u201d played by Rhys Tyack
\nAll songs written and recorded by Joe Saxby<\/p>\n

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Catalogue.<\/strong> WW36<\/p>\n

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Wood And Wire Catalogue.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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