For a two year period 2012-2014 BEK participation in the development of Jamoma is supported by Hordaland County Council. Development will be focusing on control of real-time processing environments in live productions, development of flexible interfaces, and work on surround sound. The project encompass development, documentation, developer and training workshops, and the use of Jamoma in various art projects.

The Choreography of Sound (CoS) is a 3 year arts-based research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (PEEK AR41) and carried out at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics IEM. BEK is a partner in the project, alongside CIRMMT in Montreal/Canada, ICST in Zurich/Switzerland and IRCAM in Paris/France.

The latest issue of the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) includes an article on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF) by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan Schacher, entitled “The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format: Principles, Specification, and Examples”.

BEK is pleased to welcome Nathan Wolek as a Fulbright Scholar. Nathan will be a guest researcher at BEK for 6 months commencing August 1 2012. During the stay his research will be focusing on granular synthesis, and more specifically on porting The Granular Toolkit, a package for creating granular synthesis effects within Max, to Jamoma.

The paper SpatDIF: Principles, specification, and examples by Nils Peters , Jan Schacher & Trond Lossius will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen.

SpatDIF, the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, offers a semantic and syntactic specification for storing and transmitting spatial audio scene descriptions. The paper provides an overview of the specification and discuss two use cases.

The paper An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments by Nils Peters , Trond Lossius & Tim Place will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen.

Software development benefits from systematic testing with respect to implementation, optimization, and maintenance. The paper reports on how automated testing is implemented and used for Jamoma to test C++ code as well as Max externals and patches.

The research group for philosophy, language and artistic research at FoF Institute, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen invites to seminar.

The seminar investigates how scientific and art-based research practice might relate. Is it possible within the science of philosophy to apply artistic means in order to gain insights? Is artistic research emphasizing research in the arts, on the arts or through the arts?

Boom…stroke…aaaaeeeehhhh…swing…crash…push…beeep! We struggle to put sonic interactions into words – and that is why an exhibition with real examples of sonic interaction design is the best way to experience this new field of research. It allows you to get your hands – and ears – on interactive works that showcase how sound can facilitate interaction in product design, mobile media, communicating scientific data, interactive art, and more.

Oslo University College (OUC) has taken the initiative to establish a Nordic journal for research on and in the arts. Work on the magazine kicks off with a two-day seminar where the journal profile will be discussed. Trond Lossius at BEK will join the editorial board.

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.