Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Thresholds of the Algorithmic from BEK.no on Vimeo. Shot and edited by Better Call Paul. Workshop and exhibition organised by BEK. Place: Lydgalleriet Thresholds of the Algorithmic was both an exhibition and a workshop. The exhibition opened on the 8th of June, and gradually changed during the workshop week. On Thursday the 14th of June, the exhibition opened also for an evening event with new…

This five-day workshop on experimental nonfiction audio composition for experienced artists will provide an opportunity to create audio works which explore notions of ‘place’, where equal emphasis is placed on the practice of recording and on the tasks of listening back, making selections, and composing edited pieces with those selections.

Pladask Elektrisk will visit BEK to do a workshop on FORM2 – how it works, and how to build it. FORM2 is a groundbreaking pedal exclusively made and produced for BandOrg.

Year after year, decade after decade, new technological innovations have enabled composers and musicians to enhance their craft, and nowadays there are almost countless options to examine and explore. Each new plugin promises new sonic universes to get lost in. Each new synthesizer claim to be sounding fresher than the last. Technology has made the impossible seem possible, the unreachable…

Almat and BEK are happy to announce the call for participation in a workshop-in-exposition taking place at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This will be a part of Notam and BEK’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. The workshop will take on a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form…

Say hello to Walla Walla Valhalla! A gathering around experimental film, moving image and other concepts related to the outskirts of film production. WWV it’s a two-day event starting on Saturday 18th of November with film screenings from artists Von Calhau! (PT) and Marius Mørch (NO). On Sunday 19th there will be a masterclass from Von Calhau! at BEK. Both days…

  Touch Me Festival 2017 – The Invisible Around Us From 6th-19th October, our Future DiverCities partner, KONTEJNER, will arrange the annual Touch Me festival in Zagreb (Croatia), which focuses on innovative interventions within science, technology and art. The fifth edition is titled The Invisible Around Us, where dark matter is used as a metaphor for our limitations when it…

Notam and BEK will arrange a series of workshops intended for advanced users, from 2017 to 2019. The workshops will be technical in nature, and the participants are therefore required to possess basic skills in programming, especially in Max, and signal processing. The workshops will be held in English, and will be arranged alternately in Oslo and Bergen. There is…

Can hacking the innards of a file give you insight into how the underlying data works? How to unlock the aesthetic of a digital file? In this third, and last, workshop is the workshop series Digicraft, we will look into exactly these questions.

BandOrg and BEK invite you to an innovative pedal workshop where you will build FORM, an outstanding pedal developed and manufactured exclusively for BandOrg. BandOrg has built many pedals and tested even more pedals from well known and unknown manufacturers in recent years. After playing the beta version of FORM on various instruments, they tell us that this pedal glitches,…