So, today is the first day of the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art. We are pleased to kick off the festival with a live performance by Electropolis. Fresh off of an amazing performance at the Southern Theater last weekend, Electropolis will perform one of their free-wheeling, gravity-defying sets, and will also perform the soundtrack to the 1920 silent film by Robert Weine GENUINE: THE TALE OF A VAMPIRE. Stop by, check out the show, have some free pizza and help us get this week-long electronic music extravaganza underway!

I was waiting all year for this evening, where we could join forces with the Spark Festival and show some amazing electronic music. Base8 started and had an amazing performance. Chris Baker and Anne Resele collaborated on this very complicated piece that included two video projectors, a video camera, and a laptop with fancy software (Cycling '74's Max/MSP I think.) It is pretty difficult to describe, but check out the videos. They set one piece to Satie and the next to Bjork. Abinadi Meza played a piece from his laptop that was comprised of field recordings. Airplanes, cameras, and birds floated and intermingled through the room. Alex Lubet, Doug Geers and Ying Zhang collaborated on a long, ambient droning piece. Ying...