Leading musicians from Norway and abroad working with improvisation, interactive electronic processing and extended instruments meet up for a seminar during the Ultima festival.
The Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide at BEK spring 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway.
Bjørnar Habbestad and Jeff Carey collaborates on development of software for RESPIRATOR – an art-based research project initiated by Bjørnar Habbestad.
Jeff Carey will also be giving a concert at Lydgalleriet Friday June 19 at 2100.
The Folkophone – The first song: The organic organ is the OiOi festival instrument. Not everyone can play the Folkophone, but the Folkophone can play on anyone. This year’s theme is the very first sounds we make in life.
BEK assists the composer Knut Vaage in the development of the opera “Khairos”. The opera is comissioned by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and is planned to be premiered in 2012. Vaage’s previous opera “Veslefrikk”, where BEK also contributed, won the ARTE audience award for best production at Armel Opera Competition and Festival in Hungary.
audiovisual performance by Sara Kolster & Derek Holzer
The Golden Serenades will perform a concert version of their sound installation at Henie Onstad arts center. The installation was commisioned by BEK and shown at Lydgalleriet in 2008.
A 28 channel amplifier, built by Roar Sletteland at BEK i 2008, is used for the sound installation in Johanneskirken in Bergen by Kirsten Reese. The installation is part of a series of sound installation presented by Ny musikk.
with Mean Time Between Failures (Diemo Schwarz), Victoria Johnson and James Webb.
A full night of concerts: