During the weekend of December 3-4th, BEK invited artists working with video to share and discuss practices. The aim of the seminar and workshop was to broaden the understanding of the video medium’s possibilities today, through a practical and theoretical exploration of technology, process and work.
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In this workshop you will build your own unique DIY digital effect pedal based on the Raspberry PI computer and Csound. Particpants are guided in mechanical fitting, soldering of connections, and are given a basic software introduction.
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Mareike Dobewall and Gisli Gretarsson will do a residency at BEK in mid Octobre. Friday 21st they will share their findings in an artist talk and discuss the future of their project „Voiceland“.
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The paper Authoring spatial music with SpatDIF Version 0.4 by Jan C. Schacher, Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Chikashi Miyama will be presented at the 13th Sound and Music Comuting Conference and Summer School in Hamburg. In addition to attending the conference, Trond Lossius has been invited to lecture at the Summer School, offering perspectives on Current issues in multimedia performance, and a lecture on Ambisonics and SpatDIF.
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The latest edition of Ideas Sónicas / Sonic Ideas (Vol. 8 No. 16) offers a Spanish translation of a paper by Trond Lossius and Joseph Anderson on the Ambisonic Toolkit for Reaper plugins. Ideas Sónicas is published by CMMAS – Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras.
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BEK is co-producing several projects for this years Bergen Assembly. Since 2014 we have developed content together with Bergen Assembly-curators, artists and administration. It has been a deep digging experience, and we are looking forward to see, hear and feel the results.
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The multi channel video installation Magic of Seven depicts collective exercises involving seven women, juxtaposed with archival material from various wars that unfold. The exhibition opens at Gallery 3,14 on Friday 19th August. The video work is edited at BEK, and Stian Remvik has contributed with screen syncronization and sound-to-light programming.
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Marieke Verbiesen will travel to NIME 2016 – New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2016 to present BEK, projects we have worked with, and her own project Mayhem Machine, in Brisbane, Australia.
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“Lyden i mellomrommet” (The sound in-between) is the master thesis by Line Horneland, completed at Stord/Haugesund University College in the spring 2016. The text is a critical reflection on various aspects of artistic development relating to the interactive vocal installation “Lyden i mellomrommet”. The installation was open to public at Sola ruinkirke January 2016. Main supervisor has been Magne Ingolv Espeland, and Trond Lossius at BEK has been assistant supervisor.
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A one afternoon workshop with filmmaker Gabriele Mariotti(IT) who will show the basics and everything there is to know about filming with a DSLR camera, 4k, Record sound and more
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