The SOUND AND SPACE workshop, tailored to sound and media artists, sound designers, musicians and composers, will investigate the expressive potential offered by spatialisation (virtual positioning of sound in space) and will allow participants to gain practical and artistic experience with state of the art solutions for work on spatial sound in artistic contexts.

ComputerMusic4Kids is an interactive installation for kids, inviting them to explore the history and sound of gaming consoles. The installation is included in the “Avgarde special” Saturday 5. of December. Opening at 16.00, schoolchildren will perform their own composed music, and some of the music the BIT20 Ensemble is playing. From 18.00 until midnight the ensemble takes over and will play music written for the ensemble, some freshly made and some “classics”.

Jamoma is an open-source project for structured programming in Max/MSP/Jitter and is based on modular principles that allow the reuse of functionalities whereas all parameters remain customizable to specific needs.

The paper DBAP – Distance-based amplitude panning by Trond Lossius (BEK), Pascal Baltazar (GMEA) og Theo de la Hohue (GMEA) has been accepted as a short paper for ICMC 2009 – International Computer Music Conference.

The Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide at BEK spring 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway.

The paper A stratified approach for sound spatialization by Peters et al. will be presented as a poster at The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference in Porto, July 2009.

Bjørnar Habbestad and Jeff Carey collaborates on development of software for RESPIRATOR – an art-based research project initiated by Bjørnar Habbestad.

Jeff Carey will also be giving a concert at Lydgalleriet Friday June 19 at 2100.