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Peter Kirn of createdigitalmusic/createdigitalmotion is curating the A/V performance lineup @ the soon-to-be-now Hackers On Planet Earth conference -

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 (map); 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)

More info and relevant media - We Are Hacks: Music and Visual Performance at HOPE, NYC - Preview