THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

-This Is Our Youth

Artist Matthew Steinke Presents Octant: a one man band featuring experimental robotic musical instruments that erupt onstage in an array of sounds, lights, and flailing machinery. These devices provide accompaniment as he sings, shouts, and plays various home-brew instrumentation.

Octant performs an initial set of current and old songs ranging from dark melodic melancholy to bursting atomic pop-punk . The second part will include a live soundtrack to a projection of Steinke's film, "Your Quest for Excellence" , a hypnotic abstract hand-drawn animation inspired by optical illusions and time lapse photography.

Bert Stabler of the Chicago Reader writes "Matthew Steinke is an alchemist. In a era of multimedia works created by collectives and art stars with workshops of hirelings, Steinke has the ideas, the skills, and the work ethic to operate as a scrappy, no-budget demiurge. His dense, funny, haunting installations and performances feature everything from animatronic puppetry and meticulous animation to interactive homemade kinetic and sound apparatuses. Each piece offers an incomplete glimpse into an evocative, elegant, claustrophobic cosmos."

Links:
http://octantmusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/octantmuzak

http://matthewsteinke.com

SISTER HELEN are a young rock band seeking to conquer the world through sheer power, applied in sophisticated proportion. A guitar, a bass, and a drumset fuse into a sound like the judgment of God, while at the same time keeping their distinctness and shading in the subtleties of the sound, deep as a valley in the goatherding Alps. Over it all a singer makes his immutable proclamations in the style of the ancient prophets of the Mediterranean world. Those who attend Sister Helen's Mass do not hold back. They hold on. http://myspace.com/neces

PHONY PPL is a teenage group that seamlessly mixes hip-hop with rock, and jazz elements to create an original fusion of the truest order. With three vocalists, two piano players, a drummer, a guitarist, a saxophonist, and a bass player, Phony PPL delivers a fresh and professional sound. The band came together informally - socially, through jamming, and has since evolved into a serious outfit with mass appeal on MySpace and You Tube. Captivating live shows earned them acclaim along with a diverse spectrum of performance opportunities, from different high school “battle of the band’s” type events, to sharing the stage with hip-hop pioneers. http://myspace.com/phonyppl

ANNA BRADLEY are a band led by "...some unsigned kid from Manhattan whom no one has ever heard of. His music sounds as if J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr was sixteen and holed up in his room with nothing but his electric guitar, an acoustic guitar and his MacBook. Anna Bradley’s first EP [Are You A Young Rebel?] is nine songs long, and plays itself out in under twenty minutes. [Kipling] sings mostly about girls, and states, nonplussed, that he 'can’t handle subtle.'" - Josh Ginsberg, the Stony Book Press http://myspace.com/annabradley

WOOL OVER EYES were formed in 2009 in Brooklyn, New York, The Wool Over Eyes is destined to rule and regulate you, like big brother for instance, or your mother. EP will be released 2011. http://myspace.com/woolovereyes

What do you mean you just want to spend a nice quiet night at home with your friends? Pulsewave is throwing a party just for you and your hundred closest friends. Without you, the last triple dozen or so Pulsewave events would have been total duds, and to celebrate that they have put together a line-up that is of the utmost sickness!

Headlining is your friend SADNES. Sadnes enjoys the electric guitar, but he does not have a band. Sadnes enjoys the Nintendo Entertainment System, but isn't that good at video games.

NONFINITE has played his chiptune music at shows in places like San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Philadelphia. His two albums, Northbridge and Southbridge, have influences of classical composition, while also infusing hard beats with gritty sounds. You may also know him as the proprietor of NONFINITE ELECTRONICS, a fine purveyor of only the freshest Game Boy modifications for the discerning chipstar.

BATTLE LAVA (Alexander Westcott) is a solo chip music project using the Nintendo Game Boy as a source of sound and inspiration. Hailing from Montreal Canada, he is making his triumphant return to NYC and his Pulsewave debut.

Visuals provided by NO CARRIER. Don Miller performs live visuals in real time under the alias NO CARRIER. He works with nearly obsolete repurposed electronics to create high energy low resolution abstract video. Part of the 8bitpeoples artist collective, he performs, exhibits, and lectures worldwide. Miller is based in Philadelphia, where he organizes and curates 8static, a monthly showcase of low-bit music and visuals.

Buy tickets for Pulsewave: NES/SADNES/NONFINITE/BATTLE LAVA

You saw the best now come check out the best of the rest. Join The Rural Juror has they host the best improv teams NOT to get into The Del Close Marathon. Join this group of hilarious rejects as they "yes, and", "heighten and explore", and play the "rule of three". August 1st from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM The Rejects rule Del Close.

With:
Hens and Owls
Rap Crimes Division
Bully
The Rural Juror
Population Larry
Dirty Blonde

$5

Long ago in a galaxy far far away two Southern girls met. They both loved chicken fingers and shiny objects. Together they formed the sketch duo... Geek Dreams.

about Sunday Funnies
The Sunday Funnies are every Sunday at 7:30pm in 2010. Established comedy groups North Coast, Switzerland Geek Dreams, The Pill, and City Hall will rotate every week to perform their own material as well as mentor developing comics who are interested in performing at the Tank. Never to impose drink or table minimums, Comedy at the Tank aims to provide the highest quality and dedication to the comic craft in New York City.

9 Volt Circuistry is an unlikely collaboration between 2 accomplished band leaders: trombonist, New York City native Rick Parker and Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz. Combined, these two musicians have released 8 CD’s as leaders on such well renowned record labels as Tzadik, Fresh Sound New Talent, Piadrum andAyler Records. Their own bands have performed at major venues including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Somers Point Jazz Festival, the Stone, 55 Bar, Blues Alley, National Gallery of Art and countless others. In addition, the two are in demand sidemen having performed along side the likes of John Zorn, Tim Berne, John Medeski, Frank Lacy to name just a few. Parker?s use of electronics with the trombone combined with Maoz?s unique approach to guitar and effects results in a music that is a synthesis electronic experimental, rock, jazz and neoclassical minimalism. The trio is usually completed by drummer Yonadav Halevy who can be found crossing genres of music and the globe with their unique rhythmic talents.

9 Volt Circuistry – www.myspace.com/9voltcircuistry

Rick Parker – Electric Trombone
Eyal Maoz – Guitar
Kevin Zubek - Drums

Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, explore new sonic possibilities and collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations. Each month is curated and hosted by a member of the NYC experimental music community.

Next Show - Aug 2nd:
Curator and Host: Amber Brien

Line up:
Amanda Ray
John Fell Ryan
Kaoru Watanabe
Barbara Merjan
Conrad Sparnroft
Tatsuya Nakatani
Mitch Blank
Doug Principato
Mike Durek
David B. Penn
Jennifer Leigh Aschoff
David Tamura
Thomas Bell

This month there will be multiple mini groups created from the pool of musicians participating. Each mini-group will perform 5 to10 minute mini-sets. The first half of the night will consist of groups whose members have performed together at some point in the past. The second half will consist of groups whose members have never performed together, ensuring new collaborations and sonic discoveries. This month's Creative Music Incubator is curated and hosted by Amber Brien

Trapper John Improv is a fascinating mixture of eight players from four different top improv schools (UCB, Second City, The PIT, The Magnet). Coming together into one big creative force with longform scenes that aren't afraid to experiment, they will keep you laughing long after the final bow. TJ Improv has players with backgrounds in comedic acting, stand up comedy, short form, long form, and more!

Doppelganger is a group of funny ladies who do comedy stuffs in NYC. You’ve probably confused one member for the other…or the other...you know, she's the black girl who does improv. Oh wait, there's more than one?

Long Division is comprised of the surviving acolytes of Nils Sutphen, the Dutch physicist who in 2002 supercharged the troposphere over Halse, causing a low ionic decay that has illuminated the sky there since. Sutphen, whose improvisatory approach to mathematical theory was widely ridiculed in the science community, was dissipated in the experiment. (Says one Long Divider: “He was ubiquitous and infinite in that moment, and he suffuses us. Since then we have tended to breathe in more often than out, so as not to be dispossessed of his animus.”) The acolytes continue Sutphen’s techniques of improvisation. “We’ll run the sets over and over again, changing the pattern ever so slightly, until a unified field theory emerges.”