We Are Hacks: Live Music and Visuals @ HOPE (Event Over)
- When:Fri 7/18/08 (11PM)
- Where: Hotel Pennsylvania
- Address: 401 7th Avenue New York, NY Map
- Cost: $10
From robotic drummers to balance boards, sci-fi noir to spam
folder, from circuit-bent to 8-bit to lots of bits and 3D data
packets, it's an unusual night of hacked digital performance at one
of the world's most notorious hacker gatherings.
live music:
* Ezekiel Honig (Anticipate/Microcosm founder) explores warmth in
electro-acoustic music "into a comfortable space between techno,
house and ambient"
* Ben Neill, "mad scientist of dancefloor jazz" (CMJ Magazine)
continues to evolve live music with his newly-redesigned, original
mutantrumpet
* Michael Una plays custom digital, acoustic, and circuit-bent
instruments, with a robot drummer, for rhythmic, textured, and
melodic musical experiences
* Todd Thille makes sounds from the electromagnetic signals of
potted plants
* Guitarist Animalstyle plays through home-built 8-bit fuzz pedals
and Game Boy foot
controllers
* Roger Tsai DJs with hand gestures using his original digital
gloves "Groovy Hand"
* Peter Kirn balances musical styles and Wii balance boards with a
live music and keys set and vocal strains pulled from his Gmail
spam folder
plus live visuals:
* Joshue Ott creates live visuals with his homemade superDraw
generative illustration tool
* Paris and Don Miller (No Carrier) create glitchy, lo-fi visuals
from custom-created 8-bit visual software on Nintendo and Commodore
systems
* vade spins out live hacker imagery and sniffs data packets in 3D
* Bill Jones creates live cinematic worlds inspired by sci-fi noir
Where: The Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City; head to the main
door, on your left is the entrance to Penn Pavilion and you should
see a table there.
When: Friday, July 18 2008 – performances run 11pm –
2am
Cost: US$10 at the door. First come, first served. (free if you
have a conference badge)
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
http://www.thelasthope.org/
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