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Come start the semester right and join us for a unique fusion of music, art, and technology!

Special
guests, New York based electronic musician, Morgan Packard, and media
artist, Joshue Ott, team up to create a lush, hypnotic, and truly
fascinating audiovisual performance, ultimately arriving at the
"perfect vision for a benevolent future." Combining elements of laptop
wizardry with acoustic instruments and real-time sketching, they
improvise on what is already an organic process, questioning boundaries
between artist and machine. Indeed, Packard creates blissful sonic
melodies that draw heavily on ambient and acoustic sounds with
classical and jazz elements while still maintaining a loop-based
electronic structure. Ott, using custom-made software, creates evolving
visual images that have their own unique psychedelic nature, yet always
manage to maintain a synergistic connection to the music. Both were
featured at the electronic music festival, MUTEK, in Montreal this past
spring and have played at the infamous BUNKER party at the Galapagos
art-space, in Bklyn.
http://www.myspace.com/morganpackard
http://www.myspace.com/superdraw

Following
their performance will be the return of the Hemiptera, the experimental
techno duo comprised of husband and wife team: Jennifer Clemente and
Yanni Ehm, who catalyzed a raging dancefloor at the Pixel lounge in
Collegetown this past summer. Hemiptera have been developing its unique
state of techno-consciousness, carving out subliminal grooves out of
nature's musical musk. Their recent half-year long cross-continent
journey across North America provided much of the inspiration for their
highly anticipated debut LP, "Home on the Strange", recently released
on Quebec's Pertin-Nce dub-dance netlabel. While inspired by the deeper
facets of dance music born out of Berlin and Detroit, the duo's drive
to experimentation and genre-bending is rooted in the desire to spread
electronica beyond its traditional centers, audiences and stereotypes.
http://www.myspace.com/hemiptera