In the Anthems project, Amber Ablett has been learning the national anthems of countries that people have asked her if she comes from. Ablett has worked closely with BEK since the beginning of the project, discussing conceptual questions, developing a way to film performance into video works, and working out the 12 channel sound installation that will be exhibited at…
Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Thursday November 7th Helene Rickhard (NO) and Gareth Morris (UK) will present the results of their…
“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…
During his Work Residency at BEK Mathias Loose will investigate MIDI-libraries in collaboration with Craig Wells (sound-artist), Lorie Ballage (sculpture and singer) and Samuel Brzeski (visual artist and poet). Throughout the week they will investigate and create sample-libraries. Collectively they will find and make examples, converse and trying out plug-ins, and go into foley/field recording mode to collect and extract…
In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…
In this Verktøykassen we will do sound recordings, and look into how different microphones can be used for different purposes. When is it good to use a directional microphone? And what microphones and microphone techniques are useful in field recordings? We will go through contact microphones, shotgun, stereo microphones, dpa, ambisonic, microphones for electromagnetic recordings, hydrophones, geophones, parabolas and microphone…
For the Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, Jiska Huizing was invited with the project Torn Tracks to create site-specific sound works for all the six places the exhibition has visited. BEK/Espen Sommer Eide has helped develop Torn Tracks, which is a digital interactive platform with different ways to search and organize the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of the…
Marieke Verbiesen will exhibit her audiovisual interactive instrument Sonic Tornado at this years Amsterdam Dance Event’s exhibition “100 years of electronic music instruments”.
Gunhild Mathea Olaussen and Roar Sletteland have in several periods been working in BEK’s electronic workshop to develop and build electronic parts for Resonance. Resonance is a new work by artist and scenographer Olaussen, which will be on display as an installation and as an extended instrument played by a series of performers during the Ultima Festival opening weekend.
Welcome to the autumn kick-off with book presentation and concerts at BEK Wednesday 28th of August! Jøran Rudi’s new book Elektrisk lyd i Norge (Electric Sound in Norway) describes the development of music technology and technology-dependent music in Norway from the early beginnings of the 1930s until 2005. The presentation is followed by two live electric sound concerts with Silje…