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April Foolery The Pulselings, a pop band made up of staff members at the Emerald Pulse desk, will play The Buzz Friday By Natasha Chilingerian Pulse Reporter After eight months of creating mu sic behind closed doors, psychedelic pop quintet The Pulselings will make their public debut. Emerald staff members/musicians Aaron Shakra, Carl Sundberg, Ryan Nyburg, Natasha "Nat" Chilingerian and Helen Schumacher began meet ing in August 2003 to write music, create an image for themselves and practice their craft. They will appear at The Buzz Coffeehouse open mic Friday at 8 p.m. The reporters-tumed-rockers decided to give new careers in music a shot after spending a long day to gether at the July 2003 Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, where Shakra said they experienced an "artistic revolution." "We were all feeling the groove at the fair and bouncing around to beats in the drum circle," Shakra said. "Because Carl had brought his guitar with him, and Helen had her bass, I grabbed a djembe and we jammed out after dark. Ryan pulled out his harmonica and Nat started singing. We just busted out into song, and we had this amazing har mony. It was like we were destined to play together." At the time, The Pulselings had a sixth member — Emerald reporter Steven Neuman, who had provided a Hawaiian twist to the group with his talents on the ukulele. But last Eric Layton Illustrator month Neuman quit the band. Ny burg said Neuman left for personal and philosophical reasons. "Just a few weeks before he quit, he went on this crazy acid trip and we didn't hear from him for a week," Nyburg said. "Then he came to us saying that he was too good for mu sic, that he wanted to go off and start his own business, conduct science experiments and invent new technology." The Pulselings said their emotion al connections to their instruments have kept them strong. Schumacher is a true child prodigy — she picked up the bass at age three. "1 actually constructed my first bass from colored crepe paper, old Barbie dolls and glittery pipe cleaners," Schu macher said. Turn to PULSELINGS, page 11 More ••• TOYS • LINGERIE DVDs •VIDEOS MAGAZINES of everything youdesireinan adultstore! Open 24 -7 (Almost) 1166 South A Street • Springfield • 726-6969 Why pay tor one dish when you can sample 24 tor 1 low price? B roc colt Beef Sweet and Sour chicken Fried Rice Lo Mein noodles Orange chicken Soups Appetizers and more BlJffCT 1525 Franklin Blvd. Eugene, OR 97402 541-343-2828 11:30am-9:00pm Daily Next to Campus ALL YOU CAN EAT (every night $7.99 includes drink and ice crearrO _ —come eat buffet-style or order to go Szechwan and Mandarin dishes to choose from _ C»D ' MVKRSiTY OF OKKOON * ^ eUL'GOBAh Fotelim Now Hiring For 2004-05 Heritage Music, National Music, Regional Music, Queer Film Festival, Performing Arts, & Permanent Art and Buzz Curator \r Applications Due Today Pick up apps. EMU Suite 2 or online http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu 346-4373 Oregon Daily Emerald Your campus information source # Publishes Monday through Friday Pick up the Emerald at over 120 campus and community locations rhe Nor Now with FREE BONUS CD Featuring Bonus Disc including \ previously unreleased studio recordings. Over 69 minutes ol additional studio and live tracks from 2003 performances. ’’Bold, mature and 11 adventurous... onward to new music horizons.” r i -r1 1 ix ’’FOUR STARS... i nve n live and ambi tious. -HI 1 M)l R ” An as to u n d i ng and complex studio masterpiece.” -Ml SIC I ()i)\\ www. s t r i n gc hee seine i d e n t. 1 o n i SCI FiDEiiTY^—^ www.scifidelity.com
