PULSEWAVE •02/27• J. Arthur Keenes/Sievert/Kris Keyser/exileFaker! (Page 1 of 4)

The bitter cold of winter is upon us. The city is blanketed in a layer of pure white, and the wind whips at our faces.

This month, Pulsewave keeps you warm by bringing you four piping hot sets of chipmusic topped off by Blip Festival 2009 breakout The J. Arthur Keenes Band!! Sievert joins us all the way from Houston, Texas to share his brand of high-energy chip. And of course, local up-and comers Kris Keyser and exileFaker are primed to show that they can rock just as hard as the rest of them. Visual virtuosos Paris and JYK round things out with the kind of delicately intense backdrops you've come to expect from the duo.

Bundle up and head on over to The Tank for an all-out night of aural delight! Because if you don't, the snow wins.

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http://pulsewavenyc.com

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Saturday, February 27, 2010
8 PM—12 AM
$10 • All Ages

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» The J. Arthur Keenes Band [Toronto ON, Canada]

The safest part of a woman to kiss is the back of the knee, or the tip of the neck. Those parts are not coated in thick enzymes, and your lips will not become stuck. Funny story. My first kiss was with a real “no enzyme"  Susan. We kissed all over her breath. You can kiss the breath of anyone named Susan. Breath has no innate ethnicity, like Asians. So where are all these radios, I asked Ricky. He didn’t know. He didn’t have a clue, you could see it on his face, but still he pretended like he knew. Ricky doesn’t work here no more, I told the lady. She laughed, and said “this was all just a test."  That’s how I got this feather.

http://myspace.com/thejarthurkeenesband

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» Sievert [Houston, TX, USA]

Sievert is optimistic, epic, in-your-face space adventure on a deadly collision course with upbeat, fast-paced punk-ska !  Equipped only with space goggles, dual gameboys, and a heroic sense of justice, Captain Sievert dives into danger headfirst for the good of mankind!

http://www.myspace.com/8bitsievert

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» Kris Keyser [Chatham, NJ, USA]

Kris Keyser has been writing music as long as he can remember. Starting on the piano at a young age, he moved to saxophone, guitar, drums, bass, didgeridoo, and finally settled on the Game Boy as his weapon of choice. He began exploring chipmusic in late 2008, starting with Nanoloop but eventually moving on to the ubiquitous LSDJ platform. Since then, Kris has since been working hard to build and refine an arsenal of tracks that run the gamut from energetic and fun to spacey, foreboding, and massive. In 2009, Kris’s music was featured in a machinima piece and an Xbox Live Indie game, and 2010 promises to be even bigger with the pending release of his new EP, tentatively titled Staring into Squares.

http://myspace.com/kriskeyser

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» exileFaker [New York, NY, USA]

exileFaker (Alex Kiefer) composes electronic music using the same gray matter he used to play Tetris as a teenager:  a DMG-01 and a standard lateralized human brain. He has since expanded his repertoire to include two Game Boys (but retains just the one brain). His music is influenced in ways he barely understands by the people, places and events he has experienced.

http://www.myspace.com/exilefaker
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» Paris Treantafales [New York, NY, USA]

Paris uses his own custom software to turn hand held game systems such as the GP2X and Game Boy Advance into visual performance instruments.

http://www.parisgraphics.com
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» JYK [New York, NY, USA]

Jean Y. Kim loves live visuals. She is especially fond of creating and mixing low bit graphics and patterns using some GP2Xs and a Game Boy Advance.  Drawing from an eccentric range of influences that include Robert Ryman, Edie Sedgwick, and http://www.asciipr0n.com/, she works to create an environment in which light and pixels can organically interact.

Now that she can cross Blip Festival off on her list of life goals, Jean intends to leave the GP2X and GBA behind and provide visuals for the next Spice Girls reunion tour. Or The Sugarcubes, whichever comes first.

http://www.fx6ex6.com
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Do you want to miss this? NO, you do NOT!

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