Trond Lossius will be visiting Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at Helsinki University of Technology. During the visit he will give a short talk on the use of spatialisation in his artistic work, and development related to spatialiation within the framework of Jamoma.

Trond Lossius is invited to give self presentation at MUU galleria in Helsinki, discussing recent works with a focus on sound installations using Max/MSP. The presentation is part of an Interactive Sound art class organized by Muu Media Base from December 2009 until March 2010. The course is focusing on sound and installation using the Max/MSP software.

Ezequiel Menalled is a Argentin composer based in Netherlands. He is currently artist in residency at USF. He will be presenting his work, and also provide a brief introduction to the software AC Toolbox. AC Toolbox is a program for algorithmic og computer-aided composition developed by Paul Berg at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague, Netherlands.

Gisle Martens Meyer is a norwegian musician and composer, born in 1975, and living in Bergen. Gisle had a commercial breakthrough with the electronica project UGRESS in the early 2000s. The use of cinematic elements both in music and on stage made Ugress very popular. His musical career developed into several different projects, and Gisle is a frequently used composer in films, TV, theatre, computer games and art.

In 1948, Pierre Schaeffer broadcast over French radio a “Concert of Noises”, a set of pieces composed entirely from recordings of train whistles, spinning tops, pots and pans, canal boats, percussive instruments and the occasional piano.

This week we read a text by Schaeffer on Acousmatics and listen to excerpts from works by Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and others. “Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and The Bergen National Academy of the Arts.

This session will be divided into two parts. First we will listen to some examples of early electronic and experimental sound and music, and next we will look into the World Soundscape Project, initiated by R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the early 70s, providing a critical documentation and examination of the urban and rural soundscapes surrounding us.

“Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and The Bergen National Academy of the Arts.

Michelle Teran (Canada), nominated for a “Transmediale 2010 Award”, will do a selfpresentation at HKS, as part of BEKs ongoing presentation series.

POW Ensemble played the Borealisfestival 2009 with electronic tap dancing. Now they are back in Bergen, this time with an electronic dissection of the guitar. In addition to the Landmark concert on Sunday, they will present their work and techniques at BEK on Monday 26. October