A unique style in New Orleans art, PAINT is a performance that meshes visual art and music in one technological process called Electro-Sonic Painting. Electro-Sonic Painting is the brainchild of Marcus Brown, a homegrown artist and graduate of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. After Hurricane Katrina, Brown evacuated to Portland, Oregon. During his two years there, worked on a master's degree, while inventing a process that makes playing music and creating visual art at the same time possible - all with electronically-charged brushes and canvases Brown fabricates and wires himself. Brown's latest tool, a year in the making, looks much like a Star Wars light saber and plays like a guitar. Collaborator Nathan Weidenhaft, programmer and guitarist, plays his own creative space-age instruments. Weidenhaft plays his guitar like an air harp or Theremin, using his hand to bend notes and create different sounds.
Marcus Brown paints literally with sound in his art studio. Marcus Brown's crazy paintbrush and canvas inventions are actually musical devices that he uses to create music as well as a work of art. PAINT his sound painting band explores the sonic world of creating sound with paint brushes and canvases along with traditional instruments.
