BEK is happy to host this years Jamoma development workshop with 10 developers from France, United States and Norway. The main focus will be on implementations issues for the upcoming 0.6 version, automated testing prosedures, integration between Jamoma and other platforms, and how to move forward the coming years. Of cource, the importance of intense late night discussions will not be neglected.
Marieke Verbiesen, who works as system administrator at BEK, is currently on a 3-month artist-in-residency in New York. She also use the opportunity to hold a video- and animation workshop in Calgary, Canada.
Monday 6, Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December BEK runs a VPT workshop. HC Gilje will provide a basic introduction to the use of a video projection tool he has developed. The workshop will consist of introduction, setup to get started, and then groups of three people each will work “hands on” testing different projections.
Free admission.
Registration by mail to bek[at]bek.no
29. November and 30. November: Basic 6 hours introduction course in video editing and using our videostudio.
15. November and 16. November from 12.00 – 19.00
In this course we will be filming with various cameras for various purposes and learn basic camera use.
The call for NIME 2011, 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical, is out. The call is also asking for contributions towards an exhibition on sonic interaction design that will be curated in collaboration with the EU COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID). The exhibition, produced by BEK, will take place at the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Jeff Carey is back in Bergen, and here at BEK he will hold a users workshop 3 – 4 September, focusing on the new software Modality.
Some of his works will also be presented at Landmark Wednesday 8, when Utmark kicks off.
Tuesday 28 September – Friday 1st October BEK invites musicians, programmers and composers to a four-day workshop focusing on the software MODALITY. International capabilities in this area will lead the work. The workshop is open to participants familiar with SuperCollider. Participation is free.
Trond Lossius participates at a GDIF SpatDIF meeting at Ircam. The goal of the meeting is to advance on the GDIF-Gesture Description Interchange Format and SpatDIF-Spatial sound Description Interchange Format, discussing current issues and choices made by the different research groups working with gesture or spatialization data, and decide on further collaborative actions.
María Andueza Olmedo, currently a guest researcher at BEK, will give a lecture on her PhD research. The lecture is part of the workshop Sound in Space conducted by Trond Lossius and Nils Peters.