More BEAF- Audio/Video Highlights from the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, 2008

Tuesday Mayhem 27 7pm to 10pm
Hoted by nic Electro

Now celebrating its fifth year, the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF) features a compelling roster of international, national, and regional artists presenting and performing a wide variety of electronic music, visual art, and installation art. Electroacoustic composition, electropop, sound art, electronica, experimental hip-hop, noise, electronic dance, and ambient music are presented both in separate showcases and side by side.

Over 40 artists performed during the April 26th weekend. This is a report on just a few of the sights and sounds witnessed during the festival. Highlights of the special include an audio/visual (using the KFJC video stream) performance by NoiseFold where the duo of David Stout and Cory Metcalf create and manipulate 3D abstract visual structures in real time, objects that automatically create associated sounds and then influence the form of the visuals in a sometime chaotic sometime melodic feedback loop. Noisefold will be interviewed and will describe their use of technology to achieve their unique blending of vision and sound.

Performances also include Paul Rudy, playing an electric cactus and much more.