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
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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
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