“Portland-based composer/synthesist Daryl Groetsch is best known for the enormous catalog of electronic music he has built since the early 00s under the moniker Pulse Emitter — with releases appearing on labels such as Aguirre Records, Hausu Mountain, Constellation Tatsu, and many more. While any given Pulse Emitter album could contain his experiments in Berlin School synthesis, digital fourth world composition, lengthy new age meditations, or space junk noise, he reserves the releases under his given name for the most minimal ambient strain of his output.” –Max Allison
“Whether recording under his own name, Daryl Groetsch, or the Pulse Emitter moniker, this much is certain: you’ll be lulled into a hypnotic state, entranced by the synthesizer-driven zoners that this Portland, Oregon-based sound artist so majestically crafts. A classically-trained composer, Groetsch’s heady amalgam of New Age-style radiance, hallucinogenic drone fields, interstellar melodies and rumbling electronics is the perfect escape mechanism to drift off and tune out the world.” –Brad Cohan
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Press:
- Pitchfork: Tide Pools reviewed
- The Quietus: Tide Pools reviewed
- PopMatters: Tide Pools reviewed
- All Music: Tide Pools reviewed
- Bandcamp Daily: Acid Test, April 2024
- Willamette Week: Prophecy reviewed
- The Quietus: Gardens in Glass and Frozen Waste reviewed
- Bandcamp Daily: Acid Test, July 2023
- Pitchfork: Dusk reviewed
- The Best Ambient on Bandcamp: November 2022
- Willamette Week: article/interview
- Bandcamp Daily: Lost in Space Music: Records That Explore the Outer Limits
- Pitchfork: Swirlings reviewed
- NPR: All Songs Considered
- Bandcamp Daily: Acid Test
- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Vice: Noisey
Interviews:
- Igloo Magazine
- Ambient Discourses (YouTube, Apple, Spotify)
- TBD Presents (YouTube)
- 15 Questions
- Form the Head (Apple, Spotify, Stitcher)
- Bleep43
- Gridlords
Collaborations:
- Norm Chambers (as Water Bureau)
- Paul Ellis
- Christophe Bailleau
- Chuck Pereda & Natalia Szendro
- Yoshinori Noguchi / Silentwave
- Jeff Hollett (as Visceral Transport)
- Jason E. Anderson (as Space Habitat)
- Günter Schlienz (on the Book of Dreams LP, track 2)
Pulse Emitter has a few albums at FMA (Free Music Archive) that are licensed Attribution-NonCommercial so you can use them in your videos, etc. without a Content ID claim.
Freelance work for Korg:
Synth demos and studio performances are on the Pulse Emitter YouTube channel.
Pulse Emitter appeared in the 2008 documentary film People Who Do Noise which can be viewed on YouTube.
Some darker material is made under the name Endless Fog.
Education:
- Bachelor of Music Composition, Missouri State University, 1998.
Pronunciation:
- Groetsch is pronounced Gretch.
Pulse Emitter / Daryl Groetsch 