Corset Lore

Not just a means to a genre end, Corset Lore, the solo chip music project of Tamara Yadao expresses idiosyncratic musical worlds of baroque avant-pop on a Game Boy DMG. This HOPE XV, Corset Lore brings new and classic Game Boy material alike, including chip-adjacent remixes with vocals.

She is the recipient of a commissioning grant from the American Composer’s Forum and has performed her chip music at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art PS1 NYC and a main stage set at Super MAGfest.

This August 2024, her new sci-fi concept album, 81 Terpsichore, will come out on UK Sheffield net label, Pterodactyl Squad.

https://www.instagram.com/corset_lore/

CriptasticHacker

CriptasticHacker (he/him) is a vocalist and rhyme sayer in the tradition of the 80s and 90s boom-bap hip hop era. While often performing potent political songs for civil rights and paying homage to the black pioneers of this world-renowned art form, he also enjoys the craft for expressing his love of open source hacking, Sega Genesis, and similarly fun nerd things.

CriptasticHacker's upcoming performance will include a brand new Open Source rap and a retro throwback to the simmering rivalry between Sega and Nintendo gamers in the 1990s. Be sure to check it out!

Demon Core aka. Mephisto

Demon Core aka. Mephisto - Vinyl since 1995. Got some love for hacking and phreaking. Regensburg, Germany.

Hacker Karaoke

Join Becca for some Nintendo Switch Karaoke via the JOYSOUND game. Compete on the song of your choice with the world (or not).

LaFrae Sci a.k.a Frae-Frae

LaFrae Sci a.k.a Frae-Frae is an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, entrepreneur, imaginationist, sound scientist, and Executive Director of New York City’s Willie Mae Rock Camp(williemaerockcamp.org). The through line in Sci’s work has been the philosophy that music is more than entertainment, and that Black music is inextricably linked to technology. Sci puts this philosophy into practice with her groundbreaking work at Willie Mae, and in her live performances that explore the African American ecstatic tradition, Dancefloor Liberation alaDetroit Techno, and Noise.

2200 LaFrae Sci a.k.a Frae-Frae

The through line in Sci's work has been the philosophy that music is more than entertainment, and that Black music is inextricably linked to technology. Sci puts this philosophy into practice in her live performances that explore the African American ecstatic tradition, dance floor liberation a la Detroit techno, and noise.

Sci is an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, entrepreneur, imaginationist, sound scientist, and executive director of New York City's Willie Mae Rock Camp (williemaerockcamp.org).

2300 Lil CISO

Lil CISO will be performing his entire Spotify catalogue and throwing in a freestyle.

Known for his effortless rhymes and clever wordplay, underground MC Lil CISO has battled many adversaries in the cyber trenches. With the release of his first hit single "Security God," he has taken the infosec world by storm, proving that no matter the topic, a good rapper knows how to tell a story.

2330 RADIO WONDERLAND

HOPE regular Joshua Fried aka RADIO WONDERLAND gives a taste of his new musical project combining furiously precise phase patterns with performance art, talks about his long disdain for gesture controllers, and explains why he is now using them anyway. Along the way, he'll surely touch on Max For Live (Cycling '74/Ableton).

It's become a HOPE ritual to dance to the live cut-up radio grooves and spinning Buick steering wheel of RADIO WONDERLAND. Joshua has remixed They Might Be Giants and partnered with John Flansburgh in the '90s duo Hello The Band. His music has been performed on many continents, by himself and by the likes of the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

0030 MrSynAckSter

MrSynAckSter will be performing live coded music. Enjoy the storm of improvised breaks, bloops, and bleeps. Take in the ethereal mix of 8-bit music, jazz, and drum and bass as it is improvised live. The sound of live code chopped into a maelstrom of grooves, cuts, and glitches.

MrSynAckSter has spent his entire life hacking computers and making mysterious machine bleeps and bloops. He journeyed to New York City from the depths of Florida in 2011 to pursue experimental jazz-noises. In the city, MrSynAckster found untold sonic anarchy in the NYC avant-jazz and experimental noise scenes. In 2012, he was awarded the Brooklyn College John Cage award for experimental music for his work with experimental game-based music.

Margaret Anne Schedel, Dan Gitlin, Jess Rowland, Martin Bisi

  • Martin Bisi is an original No Wave and Post-Punk producer from New York City who has been part of its musical history for the past four decades.
    Bisi made landmark recordings by Brian Eno (On Land), Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Africa Bambaataa, JG Thirlwell/Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop, Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", Helmet, Live Skull, White Hills, Dresden Dolls and countless others.

  • Dan Gitlin is a Brooklyn based Chapman Stickist, guitarist, synthesist, and general noise making guy performing a combination of structured improvisation and composed music.

  • Jess Rowland is a NYC-based sound artist, musician, and composer. She is also an educator and advocate for weird sounds at The School of Visual Arts and Princeton University.

-With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. With a diverse creative output spanning interactive multimedia operas, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments with interactive audio and video processing, she is a Professor of Music at Stony Brook University and also teaches at the Peabody Institute.

Maxx Klaxon

Maxx Klaxon presents the 2024 edition of AUTHORITARIAN IDOL, an audiovisual spectacle satirizing the U.S. election. This special presentation, featuring a mix of retro electropop and interactive 3D multimedia, includes interviews with digital avatars of the presidential candidates. Prepare to don red/blue glasses, bop to the beat, and experience the ultimate power game.

MrSynAckSter

MrSynAckSter is performing live coded music. Enjoy the storm of improvised breaks, bloops and bleeps. Take in the ethereal mix of 8-bit music, Jazz, and drum and bass as it is improvised live. The sound of live code chopped into a maelstrom of grooves, cuts, and glitches.

Nintendo Switch Karaoke

Join Becca for some Nintendo Switch Karaoke via the JOYSOUND game. Compete on the song of your choice with the world (or not).

Psychic drift network Radio Show

Psychic drift network Radio Show - New Yorand Berlin artists present an interactive show with musik, games and talks

Ptelepathetique: Music on Mars @ HOPE 15

Performance and talk
Join analog astronaut Scott Beibin for a talk and spectral and melodic Ptelepathetique set played through the ‘Music on Mars v1.0’ audio process filter prototype which he designed with John Knott to simulate the acoustic properties of the atmosphere of Mars - based upon data gathered by the Mars Perseverence Rover Supercam team. This version of the prototype was originally used for his Ptelepathetique set played during an EVA while in his two week long Analog Astronaut mission immersion at the Mars Desert Research Station in 2023.

Radio Wonderland

HOPE regular Joshua Fried aka RADIO WONDERLAND gives a taste of his new musical project combining furiously precise phase patterns with performance art, talks about his long disdain for gesture controllers, and explains why he is now using them anyway. Along the way he'll surely touch on Max For Live (Cycling '74/Ableton).

Randy Naraine Piano Player

Randy Naraine is a Cyber Architect at jetBlue Airways, He worked in Piano Sales/Education for Yamaha/Kawai prior to entering the Tech field. He enjoys performing, traveling (73 countries/50 states), and hacking sound+technology+MIDI. He is the Pianist at the World Trade Center Oculus, and plays regularly around NYC.

Sam Mulligan

Sam Mulligan plays fun rock songs with silly lyrics, distorted guitars, and gameboys. With an emphasis on equal parts positivity and absurdity, Sam's goal is to make you smile, but hey, it's your face and you should do what you want with it.
Sam is hard at work on an album of original music all about pizza - but really, it's about life through the lens of pizza. Pizza isn't transparent though, so who knows what that means. The album, "Pizza Forever", is slated to be independently released in October 2024. You can find Sam at www.sammulligan.com, or on most social medias at @heyscram.