The Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) is a partner of the Center for Musical Arts.

LEAF2023 – Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival featuring Rue Bainbridge

FREE: 7pm, Friday, April 21st, 2023
Founder’s Hall, Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026

Rue Bainbridge, the duo of Gryphon Rue and Benton C Bainbridge, exists in the intersection of expanded cinema and sonic art. Generating electric calligraphy with a hacked game console, the light patterns become a score, with visual rhythmicity suggesting electro-acoustic events. Perception shifts as light and sound momentarily synchronize, tracing a zone of concentrated intricacy. Rue Bainbridge is the first recipient of the Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota Video Art prize (2019). The pair currently live on opposite coasts of the United States.

More info: https://leafcolorado.org/leaf2023-rue-bainbridge/

LEAF2023 – Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival – Ryan Wurst & Aaron Alexander

FREE: 7pm, Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
Founder’s Hall, Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026

Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander perform an improvisational mix of generative ambience and camera-based visuals processed and mixed in real-time. Hailing from Pueblo, CO where both teach media-based music and art at the University of Colorado, the duo explore slow-moving sonic motifs that surge and swell through live visual pan/tilt/zoom explorations of intimate environments constructed in tiny terrariums.

More info: https://leafcolorado.org/leaf2023-ryan-wurst-aaron-alexander/

LEAF2023 – Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival featuring Carbon Diablo Ensemble

FREE: 7pm, Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
Grimes Hall, Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.
The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble performs improvisational musique concrète with interactive visuals. Members include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Live Sampling, Visuals, and Mix.
Performance artist Diablo Montalban, the Master of Audio Disaster, mixes live art through sound collage, drawing inspiration from music, pop culture, and noise. Diablo works spontaneously, creating pieces that are unique for the moment.

More info: https://leafcolorado.org/leaf2023-carbon-diablo-ensemble/