NoiseFold is the collective identity of David Stout and Cory Metcalf, artists working at the digital nexus of cinema, music and visual arts.
David Stout and Cory Metcalf began their seminal work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a famed art center and lesser known as the birthplace of Artificial-Life (A-Life). NoiseFold, in a word, amalgamates adjective, noun and verb. The name can conjure an immediate reference to noise music with its loud, near unbearable volumes, radical explorations of extreme frequencies, disjunctive ruptures, glitches and wall of sound dynamics. Metcalf and Stout do not discount these memes; however, their interests are larger. The project exists as a fold or group who perform live data folding processes that reference both virtual origami and the concept of protein folding. NoiseFold acknowledge noise as the field of all possibilities. Noise as prima materia an alchemical concept sometimes attributed to Aristotle, prima materia can be thought of as an elemental formless state. In this work noise exists simultaneously as both a concept and a tangible material. Noise is manifest in various mediums, as a dynamic visual or sonic field, a data stream, as collective cultural expression, as particle bombardment and as a chaotic condition of life. NoiseFold performed their world premiere at the Festival Internationale d'Art Video in Casablanca, Morocco (2006). Performances, which include the UNESCO Creative Cities Summit, New York Electronic Arts Festival, Interactive Futures in Victoria, BC, REDCAT in Los Angeles, TEDx at the Denver Art Museum and "Chinati Weekend" in Marfa, Texas have garnered critical praise and a growing international audience. NoiseFold routinely performs in wildly different contexts from concert halls, art museums and galleries to planetariums, rock venues and even botanic gardens. This ability to cross generational, disciplinary and cultural boundaries has enabled the artists to cultivate an expansive audience eager to experience new cinematic and musical forms.
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LocationCornish Playhouse at Seattle Center (View)
201 Mercer St.
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
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