The object becomes the plane, the light will be given to the darkness, the silence reflects sound.
Overgangen, is an exploration of the distance between black and white, between light and darkness. We close ourselves in, in one of Bergen’s historic chambers and drape the windows.

Maia Urstad has been using Projectroom 1 at BEK to rehearse for her concert performance at BLÅ in Oslo. Her composition, Crackle Stories, is part of the Only Connect nyMusikk’s annual festival of adventurous music.

Marcus Davidson has recently done some recordings in our sound studio using the Cubase 7 editor and different microphones such as the Blueberry and the Røde NTG-3.

Composer Knut Vaage and librettist Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen’s recently written work Khairos is a modern on & offshore opera about a man with a hyper-sensitivity to sound.

Thorolf Thuestad makes the sound design, and a lot of the sound work is done in BEK’s studio.

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Sunday 5 and Monday 6 May, Bergen Improstorband invites you to an instrument building workshop with Johannes Bergmark at BEK. The goal is to create your own instrument to use at concerts on Tuesday 7 May at the Library, Østre and Cafe Opera.

Today, Sunday 24th March at 18:30, Maia Urstad will be playing The Prodigal Son Revisited live from our sound studio. She’ll be part of ToBe Continued… an original concert lasting 24 hours (from 00.00 hours to the midnight of March 24th), during which musicians from many parts of the World will be connected to a website that will broadcast their concerts.

Tuesday 19th of March Jazz Improv band Bly de Blyant will celebrate the release of their album “ABC” with a concert at Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, teaming up with improv visualist Marieke Verbiesen during the evening “Playdate”