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Thursday 20 October Claudio Forlini presents his new short film Vampyr, and plays drone-progressions on his purpose-built sound machine _Entropia. Both projects are co-produced by BEK and realized in our studio- and project spaces.
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With the audio-visual triptych MindBox Christian Graupner, Roberto Zappalà, Norbert Schnell & Nils Peters have created an interactive installation and an electro-acoustic music instrument. The audience operates the levers and buttons of a modified one-armed-bandit and thereby remixes the pre-recorded music/video of a beatboxer that is displayed on three large screens and by speakers above the machine.
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Victoria Johnson and Thorolf Thuestad are currently working in the project room at BEK reprogramming the composition Electra by Knut Vaage for electric violin and computer. The work was composed in 2003 and premiered at the Autunale Festival the same year. Sound programming was done by Thorolf Thuestad in 2003, supported by BEK.
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Workshop in video documentation Wednesday 28. at 10.00 to Thursday 29. September at 15.00
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From the summer onwards the sound installation “Lines converging at a distance” by Trond Lossius has been presented at Håkon’s Hall. This Monday there will be a talk and conversation about the work, touching upon the artistic process as well as the technical aspects of the installation.
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The Movement I-V is an iPad app by Espen Sommer Eide that explores the various possible movements of the hand and the fingers in sound manipulation. Included are a set of sounds by the artist. You can also upload your own samples.
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From September 9th at 21.45 the Bergen Center for Electronic Arts / BEK, will presents the video work ‘Carousel’ by Bjørg Taranger at the facade of Håkonshallen facing the city. As the daylight fades, the work will emerge on Håkonshallen distinctive stone facade.
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The research group for philosophy, language and artistic research at FoF Institute, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen invites to seminar. The seminar investigates how scientific and art-based research practice might relate. Is it possible within the science of philosophy to apply artistic means in order to gain insights? Is artistic research emphasizing research in the arts, on the arts or through the arts?
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The current sound installation by Trond Lossius at Håkonshallen is based on recordings of the early music ensemble Bergen Barokk. During Bergen Medival Music Days Bergen Barokk responds to the installation with an improvisation at the hall, playing with and against the sound of the installation.
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The Choreography of Sound (CoS) is a 3 year arts-based research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (PEEK AR41) and carried out at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics IEM. BEK is a partner in the project, alongside CIRMMT in Montreal/Canada, ICST in Zurich/Switzerland and IRCAM in Paris/France.
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