Who run the world? Come to Pulsewave this month and watch the ladies of chip RUN THIS MOTHA!

Saturday, June 29th @ Brooklyn Launchpad (721 Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn). Doors at 8PM, open mic @ 8:30. All ages, BYOB, $10!

♪ Drum Machine Dating Serivce (NY)
Gaze at your shoes. Get a little misty. Hold on to your butt. Maybe you’ll dance. drum machine dating service (dmds) makes music with DS-10, Polychord, piano and Casios. 

http://dmds.tumblr.com/
http://soundcloud.com/jenndlv

♫ Corset Lore (NY)

Having a fascination with highly structured music and baroque culture, Corset Lore writes 8 bit compositions on a Game Boy DMG. As a guitar player, she fancies electric toothbrushes and ebow to guitar plectra most of the time and has collaborated with 8 bit musicians glomag, Natty and POPStar. She has performed at HOPE Number Nine 2012, I/O chip music showcase, Splice NYC, Vector Game Art Festival, the WARPER 7 year anniversary party and in collaboration with glomag at PAX East, Public Assembly and Pulsewave NYC. Compilations include Starscream’s “Future, And It Doesn’t Work + Remixes” record and “Reformat: A Tribute to Bit Shifter’s Information Chase” on 8bitpeoples.

http://soundcloud.com/
corset-lore
http://facebook.com/
pages/Corset-Lore

♪ Bubblyfish (NY)
http://www.bubblyfish.com/

☼ CHiKA
http://imagima.com/

Spring is springing, birds are chirping and booties will be shaking! Come out of the cold and bump da party with us! SATURDAY, APRIL 27 @ Brooklyn Launchpad (off the Franklin Ave 2, 3, 4, 5) 8PM. Open Mic @ 8:30. BYOB! $10, All Ages!
♪ CHROMACLE (PHIL) -Chromacle is a digital art and music project created by Jake Beadenkopf to explore the plane of the digital aesthetic, creating vast computerized video and audio experiences that dance the border between logical data constructs and ocular corruption. Working under the mantra “Beauty from corruption, destruction from chrominance,” Chromacle’s work deconstructs the digital to its barest form. The product is a glitch-influenced barrage of visual and audiological stimuli that tantalize and torture physiological receptors. http://chromacle.com/♫ MINUSBABY (NY) - Richard Alexander Caraballo began his minusbaby project in 1999 to explore the diversity of a lo-fi, compositional aesthetic and has since progressed experimentally in its scope to include elements guided by those roots and a sonic language representative of his influences, namely: the art of bass and how it moves butts. http://minusbaby.com/♪ CREAM IN ALL MOUSTACHE (ES, BARCELONA) -Cream in all Moustache aka Alexandre is a French boy fascinated by underground culture. After several shows in France and a US TOUR with C’n’B label, CIAM developed his real own style, digging the deepest sounds from his 2.3 cartridge, always trying to push away the boundaries of chiptune. https://soundcloud.com/bersiaalexandre☼ FUTURESTACK (NY) -futurestack is a visual artist who likes 1bit, high quality dithering and old technology. Professionaly he does vfx for broadcast and film, and at night he draws and messes with electronics that most people consider garbage. He’s been using pretty much the same computer since 1987. http://futurestack.com/

Spring is springing, birds are chirping and booties will be shaking! Come out of the cold and bump da party with us! 

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 @ Brooklyn Launchpad (off the Franklin Ave 2, 3, 4, 5) 8PM. Open Mic @ 8:30. BYOB! $10, All Ages!

♪ CHROMACLE (PHIL) -
Chromacle is a digital art and music project created by Jake Beadenkopf to explore the plane of the digital aesthetic, creating vast computerized video and audio experiences that dance the border between logical data constructs and ocular corruption. Working under the mantra “Beauty from corruption, destruction from chrominance,” Chromacle’s work deconstructs the digital to its barest form. The product is a glitch-influenced barrage of visual and audiological stimuli that tantalize and torture physiological receptors. http://chromacle.com/

♫ MINUSBABY (NY) - Richard Alexander Caraballo began his minusbaby project in 1999 to explore the diversity of a lo-fi, compositional aesthetic and has since progressed experimentally in its scope to include elements guided by those roots and a sonic language representative of his influences, namely: the art of bass and how it moves butts. http://minusbaby.com/

♪ CREAM IN ALL MOUSTACHE (ES, BARCELONA) -
Cream in all Moustache aka Alexandre is a French boy fascinated by underground culture. After several shows in France and a US TOUR with C’n’B label, CIAM developed his real own style, digging the deepest sounds from his 2.3 cartridge, always trying to push away the boundaries of chiptune. https://soundcloud.com/bersiaalexandre

☼ FUTURESTACK (NY) -
futurestack is a visual artist who likes 1bit, high quality dithering and old technology. Professionaly he does vfx for broadcast and film, and at night he draws and messes with electronics that most people consider garbage. He’s been using pretty much the same computer since 1987. http://futurestack.com/

We have a Pulsewave coming up on March 30th! We’re happy to announce that the fine folks of Piko Piko Detroit will be making their NYC debut.
***NOTE: The exact address of the venue will be emailed on the night of the 29th, we can tell you that the venue is in Gowanus, Brooklyn, off of the D, N, R, F, or G lines. Subscribe to our mailing list here for the address and other Pulsewave updates: http://eepurl.com/vWWOz ***
All ages, $10! Open mic @ 8:30
♫ SNESEI (MI) –
In the year 200x, a teenage boy was reading his monthly Nintendo Power when he stumbled across an article about making music with vintage computer and video game systems. The idea intrigued him so much that he began lurking many websites and forums for more information. The year 20xx came even faster and with his new found knowledge he equipped himself with a Gameboy and a usb cartridge. The boy shortly after evolved into Snesei. Now you can catch him playing in many different environments and throwing hadoukens to the sound of saw waves and cute sounding melodies. 
♪ NIKOLA WHALLON (MI) - 
In the year 199x, Nikola was born of two dragons into the age of the SNES. His love of SNES, N64, and Gameboy music would have such a great impact on the child’s life that when he came of age, these feelings of love and nostalgia would fuse and give birth to music that has the power to bring out the child in anyone. From classic video game music to modern pop, his Gameboy knows no bounds, and loves to party on the dance floor.
♫ BARBEQUE (MI) - 
barbeque has two game boys, three eyes, and a gp2x.
utilizing each more effectively than the last, he creates luscious soundscapes and rhythms designed to flush out memories past and bring about visions of the future.
♪ THE ONE ELECTRONIC (MI) -
The One Electronic is Kansas City native Michael Vallejo. Using a blend of 8bit hardware, vintage synthesizers, ’80s drum machines, vocals, and modern day software, he creates a unique, untraditional style of chiptune. His focus on strong melodies shows a strong emphasis in being happy, optimistic, and upbeat.

☼ OHHINAIFU (MI) - 
ohhinaifu has been making pixel art since 2010. she hopes to blind you with drips, kitties, and cuteness.

We have a Pulsewave coming up on March 30th! We’re happy to announce that the fine folks of Piko Piko Detroit will be making their NYC debut.

***NOTE: The exact address of the venue will be emailed on the night of the 29th, we can tell you that the venue is in Gowanus, Brooklyn, off of the D, N, R, F, or G lines. Subscribe to our mailing list here for the address and other Pulsewave updates: http://eepurl.com/vWWOz ***

All ages, $10! Open mic @ 8:30

♫ SNESEI (MI)

In the year 200x, a teenage boy was reading his monthly Nintendo Power when he stumbled across an article about making music with vintage computer and video game systems. The idea intrigued him so much that he began lurking many websites and forums for more information. The year 20xx came even faster and with his new found knowledge he equipped himself with a Gameboy and a usb cartridge. The boy shortly after evolved into Snesei. Now you can catch him playing in many different environments and throwing hadoukens to the sound of saw waves and cute sounding melodies. 

♪ NIKOLA WHALLON (MI)

In the year 199x, Nikola was born of two dragons into the age of the SNES. His love of SNES, N64, and Gameboy music would have such a great impact on the child’s life that when he came of age, these feelings of love and nostalgia would fuse and give birth to music that has the power to bring out the child in anyone. From classic video game music to modern pop, his Gameboy knows no bounds, and loves to party on the dance floor.

♫ BARBEQUE (MI)

barbeque has two game boys, three eyes, and a gp2x.

utilizing each more effectively than the last, he creates luscious soundscapes and rhythms designed to flush out memories past and bring about visions of the future.

♪ THE ONE ELECTRONIC (MI) -

The One Electronic is Kansas City native Michael Vallejo. Using a blend of 8bit hardware, vintage synthesizers, ’80s drum machines, vocals, and modern day software, he creates a unique, untraditional style of chiptune. His focus on strong melodies shows a strong emphasis in being happy, optimistic, and upbeat.

☼ OHHINAIFU (MI)

ohhinaifu has been making pixel art since 2010. she hopes to blind you with drips, kitties, and cuteness.

Larger version of February’s flyer by Batsly Adams, photo by Ugly Machine
(p.s. COME TO PULSEWAVE)

Larger version of February’s flyer by Batsly Adams, photo by Ugly Machine

(p.s. COME TO PULSEWAVE)

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 8 pm @ LaunchPad (721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York)

Come out of the cold and enjoy the sweet riffs and melodic chips of some of chipmusic’s coolest rockers at this month’s Pulsewave. Pulsewave is the US’s longest running show dedicated to exploring the sights and sounds of vintage game consoles and computers.$10 admission & ALL AGES, BYOB!ANIMAL STYLE (PA)Animal Style is an audio visual chip music project by Joey Mariano started around 2001.SADNES (CT)Sadnes is an exploration of self and a coming to terms with prior occurences. A blissful mixture of 90’s grunge backed by a Nintendo Entertainment System. His sound will make you wish ripped jeans and messy hair were back in style. It’s time to hate your parents.DANIMAL CANNON (NY)Your life will be greatly enhanced once you attend a Danimal Cannon show. He’s like a government stimulus check that gives you ice cream sandwiches made out of guitar solos. Can you really afford to pass that up? Didn’t think so.
visuals by BATSLY ADAMS (NY)Andrew Reitano [Batsly Adams] is an electrical engineer / programmer / visualist based in NY. He creates visuals using a combination of two Sega Genesis consoles and a hand-built video synth circuit. His style involves pushing the limits of the Sega video processor (VDP), utilizing hardware tricks to produce images beyond the expected capability of the system.
We will be having an open mic this month! Come show us what you’ve made/written! Every open mic spot has a 5 minute limit, which includes set-up and tear-down. Open mic sign-ups are first-come, first-serve so get there at door time if you want a spot. Don’t be shy, come out and play!
photo by Ugly Machine

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 8 pm @ LaunchPad (721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York)

Come out of the cold and enjoy the sweet riffs and melodic chips of some of chipmusic’s coolest rockers at this month’s Pulsewave. Pulsewave is the US’s longest running show dedicated to exploring the sights and sounds of vintage game consoles and computers.

$10 admission & ALL AGES, BYOB!

ANIMAL STYLE (PA)
Animal Style is an audio visual chip music project by Joey Mariano started around 2001.

SADNES (CT)
Sadnes is an exploration of self and a coming to terms with prior occurences. A blissful mixture of 90’s grunge backed by a Nintendo Entertainment System. His sound will make you wish ripped jeans and messy hair were back in style. It’s time to hate your parents.

DANIMAL CANNON (NY)
Your life will be greatly enhanced once you attend a Danimal Cannon show. He’s like a government stimulus check that gives you ice cream sandwiches made out of guitar solos. Can you really afford to pass that up? Didn’t think so.

visuals by BATSLY ADAMS (NY)
Andrew Reitano [Batsly Adams] is an electrical engineer / programmer / visualist based in NY. He creates visuals using a combination of two Sega Genesis consoles and a hand-built video synth circuit. His style involves pushing the limits of the Sega video processor (VDP), utilizing hardware tricks to produce images beyond the expected capability of the system.

We will be having an open mic this month! Come show us what you’ve made/written! Every open mic spot has a 5 minute limit, which includes set-up and tear-down. Open mic sign-ups are first-come, first-serve so get there at door time if you want a spot. Don’t be shy, come out and play!

photo by Ugly Machine

Woe to us all! Armageddonwave marked the end of the world and Pulsewave for the year 2012. If we are to survive, we shall gather again on the 26th day of January in the year 2013. Gifs by Jenn.

Almighty thanks to Kedromelon, Trey Frey, Bit Shifter and visualists Notendo and Rosa Menkman! 

R U RDY 2 GET WAVYYYYYYY \(◕ิ ྱ ◕ิ)/ SATURDAY 12.15.2012This Pulsewave will be Armageddon themed, so come decked out in your best end-of-the-world couture and fake (or real) blood! Be tasteful, please.☻ @ 15 West 28th Street, between Broadway and 5th. 28th Street stop on the N, R
☺ Doors at 8PM, $10 admission & ALL AGES☻ OPEN MIC!ARTISTS:♪ KEDROMELON (NY) ♪ -From Frederick, Maryland (currently living in NYC), chiptune musician Kedromelon composes and performs electronic dance music using Nintendo Game Boys. http://kedromelon.com/♫ TREY FREY (WV) ♫ -From Morgantown, West Virginia, Trey Frey is a chiptune musician who wants to dance with you. http://www.treyfrey.net/♪ BIT SHIFTER (NY) ♪ -New, unusual. Hear songs and see performances by self-professed “musician” holding small white video game consoles. All the rage. Harsh, annoying. “This is gaoing to blaow ahp,” says Mr. M. McLaren of Paris, France. Exciting new movement. You better tune in now. Otherwise in ten years everyone will trading stories, and then won’t you feel left out. Staring into your drink, wishing you had something to say. We’ve all been there. Now’s your chance to change all of that. Curious new music. A startling and innovative step backwards in technology. What will they think of next. http://bit.shifter.net/☼ NOTENDO (NY) ☼ -Jeff Donaldson is an audio/visual artist who has been working withfeedback systems since the late 1980s. At the beginning of the newmillennium, Donaldson began applying the concept of feedback to video game systems, transforming them into generative audio/visual instruments. Since publishing his video work online, Donaldson has exhibited internationally as well as helped to pioneer the fields of video bending and glitch aesthetics.http://notendo.tumblr.com/

R U RDY 2 GET WAVYYYYYYY \(◕ิ ྱ ◕ิ)/ SATURDAY 12.15.2012

This Pulsewave will be Armageddon themed, so come decked out in your best end-of-the-world couture and fake (or real) blood! Be tasteful, please.

☻ @ 15 West 28th Street, between Broadway and 5th. 28th Street stop on the N, R


☺ Doors at 8PM, $10 admission & ALL AGES

☻ OPEN MIC!

ARTISTS:

♪ KEDROMELON (NY) ♪ -
From Frederick, Maryland (currently living in NYC), chiptune musician Kedromelon composes and performs electronic dance music using Nintendo Game Boys. http://kedromelon.com/

♫ TREY FREY (WV) ♫ -
From Morgantown, West Virginia, Trey Frey is a chiptune musician who wants to dance with you. http://www.treyfrey.net/

♪ BIT SHIFTER (NY) ♪ -
New, unusual. Hear songs and see performances by self-professed “musician” holding small white video game consoles. All the rage. Harsh, annoying. “This is gaoing to blaow ahp,” says Mr. M. McLaren of Paris, France. Exciting new movement. You better tune in now. Otherwise in ten years everyone will trading stories, and then won’t you feel left out. Staring into your drink, wishing you had something to say. We’ve all been there. Now’s your chance to change all of that. Curious new music. A startling and innovative step backwards in technology. What will they think of next. http://bit.shifter.net/

☼ NOTENDO (NY) ☼ -
Jeff Donaldson is an audio/visual artist who has been working with
feedback systems since the late 1980s. At the beginning of the new
millennium, Donaldson began applying the concept of feedback to video game systems, transforming them into generative audio/visual instruments. Since publishing his video work online, Donaldson has exhibited internationally as well as helped to pioneer the fields of video bending and glitch aesthetics.http://notendo.tumblr.com/

Whoa. Thanks to goferboy, craphazzard, storm blooper and futurestack for making November’s Pulsewave SICK. Gifs by Jenn, still shots by falsebit and Chiptography.

If you have any photos, gifs or video to contribute tag it with @pulsewave on Twitter, post it on our Facebook page or leave it in our ask box!

SAVE THE DATE! We’re back at Tada on December 15th.

(੭ु ˃̶͈̀ ω ˂̶͈́)੭ु⁾⁾ イェイ! イェイ! イェイ!
Pulsewave NYC is proud to present yet another installment of our regular show series. This month’s show is ALL AGES
WHERE: TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W 28th St 3rd floorNew York, NY 10001. The theater is located between Broadway and 5th. The nearest subway stop is the 28th St. N/RWHEN: Saturday, November 17th, doors are at 8 pmHOW MUCH: $10WHO: this month we are thankful for the following artists:goferboy [NY]Also known as Henry Andrew Baum, goferboy began his existence as a twinkle in his father’s eye that turned into a flame that could not be extinguished. After tickling the ivories of a piano for most his childhood, goferboy traded his piano-playing for fondling of Game Boy buttons. His sound varies from melodic frolics to gloomy bass to disco pulsations. The results impregnates the audiences ears, as his provocative, neon-hip fluxuations fertilizes their hearts.craphazzard [NY]craphazzard writes music in both modern DAW’s and for micro-platforms such as the Nintendo GameBoy. He is currently focused on producing the best music possible with a single DMG running LSDJ.storm blooper [PHL]Located fathoms below sea level, Storm Blooper (what used to be Sub-Woofer Special) harnesses nothing but a gameboy running LSDJ and attempts to unlock its maximum potential by slapping down catchy melodies, electrifying instruments, and smooth percussive work. Get ready to dance.visuals by futurestack [NY]futurestack is a visual artist who likes 1bit, high quality dithering and old technology. Professionaly he does vfx for broadcast and film, and at night he draws and messes with electronics that most people consider garbage. He’s been using pretty much the same computer since 1987.AND YOU! Bring your best new tunes for the open mic before the show!

(੭ु ˃̶͈̀ ω ˂̶͈́)੭ु⁾⁾ イェイ! イェイ! イェイ!

Pulsewave NYC is proud to present yet another installment of our regular show series. This month’s show is ALL AGES


WHERE: TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W 28th St 3rd floor
New York, NY 10001
. The theater is located between Broadway and 5th. The nearest subway stop is the 28th St. N/R

WHEN: Saturday, November 17th, doors are at 8 pm

HOW MUCH: $10

WHO: this month we are thankful for the following artists:

goferboy [NY]

Also known as Henry Andrew Baum, goferboy began his existence as a twinkle in his father’s eye that turned into a flame that could not be extinguished. After tickling the ivories of a piano for most his childhood, goferboy traded his piano-playing for fondling of Game Boy buttons. His sound varies from melodic frolics to gloomy bass to disco pulsations. The results impregnates the audiences ears, as his provocative, neon-hip fluxuations fertilizes their hearts.


craphazzard [NY]

craphazzard writes music in both modern DAW’s and for micro-platforms such as the Nintendo GameBoy. He is currently focused on producing the best music possible with a single DMG running LSDJ.


storm blooper [PHL]

Located fathoms below sea level, Storm Blooper (what used to be Sub-Woofer Special) harnesses nothing but a gameboy running LSDJ and attempts to unlock its maximum potential by slapping down catchy melodies, electrifying instruments, and smooth percussive work. Get ready to dance.


visuals by futurestack [NY]

futurestack is a visual artist who likes 1bit, high quality dithering and old technology. Professionaly he does vfx for broadcast and film, and at night he draws and messes with electronics that most people consider garbage. He’s been using pretty much the same computer since 1987.

AND YOU! Bring your best new tunes for the open mic before the show!

samojohblag:

It’s time for another .GIF Dump!

Pulsewave Spooktacular was so much fun! It was great to see everyone there, props to the performers for travelling into the eye of the storm to be here, props to Emily Chiptune for organizing, and props to Launchpad for hosting!

Yey Cherptern!

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running event dedicated to exploring the sights and sounds of Chip Music’s greatest musicians and motion visualists. Using vintage video game systems and computers as the basis and influence for stunning next generation music and visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging and established artists from the international and local community. Pulsewave promises to remain committed to showcasing the best the global Chip Music community has to offer.
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