THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

The Tank presents an evening with Best Friends Forever and Acht(en). Minneaoplis-based Best Friends Forever is an indie/progressive group of guitarist/keyboard player Bri and her best friends forever, bassist Jes and drummer Joe.

AcHT(eN), the musical collaboration of Jennifer Leigh Aschoff and David Barth Penn, blends piano, cello, flute, keyboards, hems, haws, xylophone, finger piano, percussions and spit to compose, imagine, improvise & explore with the world via non-lyrical narrative. Listen as they each & together find both familiar & unfamiliar places! AcHT(eN) has released one feature-length LP entitled PoWNS. Editioned at 300 vinyl LPs, each cover is individually handmade from 8 home-made stamps, 2 cuts, 1 fold, & a lot of coffee for the dyeing.

The Tank's night of crush-worthy electronic music returns for a second date! A wild-at-heart, all animal line-up will make you sway wistfully to their blissful beats-- Animal Style with his guitar and Game Boy and VBlank with his mastery of eclectic visuals from lo-fi to hi-fi will be coming up from Philadelphia to join NYC's own Data Dog and The Fearsome Sparrow.

Animal Style

Joey Mariano has been making electronic music since the year 2000 and playing guitar since 1991. Trained as a jazz guitarist, joey first gained critical acclaim for his unique guitar style with his early experiments in improvised music. Recently, under the alias animal-style, he has been writing chiptune music on programs like Nanoloop, LSDJ, and famitracker. Along with popularizing the 8bit fuzz guitar pedal (FXDocotor.com) by intertwining catchy melodies with crafty guitar riffs, Mariano has also spent some time bridging the gap between classical music and chip tunes with releases like Gameboy Madrigals. Inventor of the Gameboy Foot Controller, he continues to innovate the live performance of chip music through improvisation and creativity.

http://animal-style.com

Data Dog

Data Dog! An electronic-pop duo based out the NYC area featuring Long Island natives Robert Flato and Dan Arnes. With their minimal electronic, noisy pop and synth heavy beats, Data Dog colors their songs with vocal harmonies, creating a unique blend of styles. A true-blue collaboration, with songwriting and vocal duties handled by both dogs, Data Dog's live shows are a sight to behold, with acoustic guitars, keyboards and laptop beats creating the sonic landscape by which they navigate. So please, take a break from your life, and listen to Data Dog.

http://www.myspace.com/datadogmusic

the fearsome sparrow

"Brooklyn's the fearsome sparrow produce music that submerges listeners in rich electronic textures and bittersweet vocals.... Fans of even the most glitch-laden and experimental electronic music should be able to appreciate Fearsome Sparrow." (Dvorak, Deli Magazine 8/27/07)

Liz Godoy grew up in Mexico. Studies in classical ballet eventually took her to Cuba. After a year in Architecture school back in Mexico she left and moved to San Diego at the age of 19. Brenden Beu was born and raised in San Diego. Early studies in guitar and piano led him to a formal education in electronic music composition at San Diego State University.

Liz knocked on Brenden's door without an introduction. Brenden was confused by this... he still is.

They have been living in Brooklyn since 2005 where they have continued writing and recording music that is uniquely theirs.

http://thefearsomesparrow.com/

Bing and Ruth

Formed in 2006 by Brooklyn based composer and pianist David Moore, ambient chamber band Bing and Ruth utilizes a large number of traditional acoustic instruments to craft expansive soundscapes and quiet microtonal textures. With clarinets, voices, cellos, bass, percussion, and piano, the group calls upon a family of experienced musicians and improvisers who ably interpret Moore's slow-developing, visceral compositions. Recent performances for the ensemble include a pair of shows for New York's Wordless Music Series; sharing the stage with Icelandic super-band Mum and British minimalist composer Max Richter.

www.bingandruth.com

Victrola
Performing the Music of Missy Mazzoli

Brooklyn-based composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli brings her bandsemble Victrola to the Tank for a set of her own compositions. This new group combines oceanic indie austerity, slippery harmonies and quirky minimalist grooves, all played by some of New York's best young musicians. Victrola is Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards), Missy Mazzoli (keyboards) and Eleonore Oppenheim (bass).

www.myspace.com/victrolavictrola

As the summer comes to a close, New York city gets ready for fall fashion week and on the last Saturday of August Pulsewave is inviting you to a preview of the most chic chiptune couture in the world. This month we take it back underground to a new subterranean setting at the Knitting Factory's Old Office.

On the runway:

GOFERBOY, making his Pulsewave debut will strut his stuff with characteristic confidence, demonstrating what a young man of distinction can do with a Gameboy and a decent dose of cherubic charm.
In sleek steel-framed specs with a shock of hair like ice but with a grin fit to melt you, you would be forgiven for thinking Tim Gunn is here, but no; it's Pulsewave veteran and New York Chiptune champion GLOMAG ready with a batch of tunes both classic and cutting-edge.
Finally, from a sister cosmopolis beyond the border of our northern neighbor comes Toronto's tuneful tailor TOUCHBOY to show us all how much he's grown in the past year and close the show with a stomping selection of 8 bit Italo-House beat blasts.
Visuals will be hand-made to measure by VOLTAGE CONTROLLED and VBLANK.
Prizes will be given to the best-dressed by celebrity judges, so make an effort and you may be rewarded.

http://8bitcollective.com/members/goferboy/
www.glomag.com
www.touchboy.ca
www.voltagecontrolled.com
http://www.waitforvblank.com/

www.pulsewavenyc.com

! Note: This show will take place at the Old Office at the Knitting Factory
Old Office (Lowermost space of the Knitting Factory)
The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St (Between Church St. and Broadway)
New York, NY 10013