Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Last week in the Video Editing room at BEK, Terese Longva edited footage from the 6-hour durational performance Shelter.

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The MA Degree Show in Fine Arts of the Arts department at Bergen College of Ars and Design opens at Bergen kunsthall Friday April 12. BEK has assisted the development of the work Scale, Etude I & II by Trine Hylander Friis.

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Eva Ljosvoll’s video work En Odyssé will be showing at Galleri 3,14 in Bergen from 12 April – 2 June. Opening Friday 12 April, 18.00. En Odyssé, where plants unpredictable growth are combined with the movement in the work of container shipping, has been edited at BEKs video studio.

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At Konsthall C in Stockholm Elin Øyen Vister will be presenting the sound installation “Soundscape Røst – A listening lounge”. She will also be creating a site specific multi-channel sound installation for the basement of Konsthall C with material from Soundscape Røsy archives and sounds from the room itself. The solution for multichannel playback for the basement installation has been developed at BEK.

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Lydgalleriet presents Collision Index, a multimedia collective speculating on the sound of mechanics, meaning, language and visuality. An arsenal of smaller machines and sculptural objects interacts aurally and physically. Sometimes controlled, sometimes randomly, a hybrid of installation, concert, theater and text.

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Entry Denied is an exhibition and a film program (Exiles), organized by the newly formed artist group Exiles. Their aim is to promote knowledge and discussion about Norwegian and international asylum and refugee policy in the hope of influencing it in a more humane direction. You’ll find Entry Denied at Visningsrommet USF, Cinemateket and Bergen offentlige bibliotek. BEK supports Exiles with equipment, project space, programming and other technical assistance.

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The film Blåtur will premiere 12. April at the Bergen cinema. Audiodesign for the film is done in BEK’s studio by Thorolf Thuestad and Knut Vaage.

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EDGE OF WRONG 2013 presents first found, then lost, a residency / tour from Oslo via Bergen to Reykjavik, with the South African artist Josh Ginsburg and the Norwegian musician Morten Minothi Kristiansen. BEK is one of several supporters of the project and organize a workshop with a performance on Tuesday 8 October.

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The Reaper DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) program provides JS, a scripting language for creation of audio and midi effects. Recently Trond Lossius has started developing a number of JS plugins for processing of ambisonic signals. Source code for the plugins is available at GitHub.

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Today, Sunday 24th March at 18:30, Maia Urstad will be playing The Prodigal Son Revisited live from our sound studio. She’ll be part of ToBe Continued… an original concert lasting 24 hours (from 00.00 hours to the midnight of March 24th), during which musicians from many parts of the World will be connected to a website that will broadcast their concerts.

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