Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Join us for live performances as part of the KMD seminar series Sonic Proximity on 4 October at BEK.

The seminar, organised by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, focuses on two days of networking in the global and local sound arts and experimental music scene, examining interpersonal and cultural encounters in the field of sound and listening. The seminar features talks in the daytime at University of Bergen – The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD) on 4 and 5 October, and an evening performance programme at BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts on 4 October. 

Live performance programme

Friday 4 October, at BEK, C. Sundts gt 55.
Performances: 19:00–22:30
Free entry

Participating artists

Feronia Wennborg, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Nakul Krishnamurthy, DALOT, HMOT

About the seminar Sonic Proximity

Recently, Peruvian scholar Marisol de la Cadena suggested in a talk that there is no singular world, or many discreet worlds – there are only connections and relations. Resonating with these relational dynamics and potentialities embedded in (co-)sounding and (co-)listening, this first seminar from the series of scholarly and artistic gatherings focuses on the topic of sonic relationality and confluence, engaging with thoughts and perspectives on sonic interactions across a diverse range of scenarios and experiences, from personal to collective, and from social to political. The gathering examines interpersonal and cultural encounters in the field of sound and listening from a micro-scale (interpersonal exchanges through intimacies of listening) to a macro-scale (acoustic communication between key regions of a planetary society, e.g. between Global Norths and Global Souths).

This wider range and scalability of the discourse aims to shed light on the fundamental issues in sonic exchanges, contributing to the studies of globalisation concerned with intercultural encounters and media technological transmissions between Global North and South as two-way processes of confluence, as well as the listening that unfolds between peoples impacted by the larger socio-political forces of co-sounding. The focus of this seminar, as the title suggests, is on networking in the context of (g-)local sound arts and experimental music scene and their situated discourses in Bergen, Norway.

This is the first seminar from the MSCA Postdoctoral Project Connecting Resonances currently in progress at KMD, University of Bergen (2023 – 2026). The seminar series is developed and realised in KMD, UiB, in collaboration with BEK. Organised by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, KMD, UiB).

See the full programme for the seminar at www.kmd.uib.no.

Accessibility

BEK’s space unfortunately is not wheelchair accessible. Please send us an email at bek@bek.no if you’re using a wheelchair, and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs. Our space has all gender toilet facilities. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.