The exhibition Cataract by Vilde Salhus Røed at Visningsrommet USF revolves around some inherited negative roll films that once were exposed, but have been sitting undeveloped in the cartridges for decades. The title piece Cataract was developed at BEK earlier this winter during a work residency, and it is BEK’s equipment that is used in the playback of this sound…
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Anne Marthe Dyvi, artistic developer at BEK, participates in the conference Nye Territorier? Desentralisert kunstpraksis (New Territories? Decentralized art practice) at Hamar, where she will talk about the internet as a landscape. The conference will address some of the questions that “Mjøsa – an art project” and similar art project can provide the basis for setting. In a three-part program, the conference will address the themes…
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What is an album? What can an album made for a building be? The Waves aims to rethink the album format of an era where the album is declared dead repeatedly and the music must be created for an audience with attention for no more than 35 minutes of focused listening. The difference between a “recording” and a live experience…
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In this Verktøykassen we will be looking into video synchronization; when two or more videos are playing synchronously on separate screens or projectors. Course leader Stian Remvik will present various methods with different software and hardware, and look closer at the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.
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In the period of March 18th – April 5th, Anne Marthe Dyvi will be in BEK’s video studio where she will mainly work on the video This Thing about Time (work title). The project will be shown at Galleri Langegården in 2020, in dialogue with Trudi Jaeger’s artistic practice and Langegården as a historical place. This Thing about Time has the ambition to…
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After releasing two EP’s, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik, aka Niilas, has started to work on his first album. Niilas will continue this work in BEK’s sound studio March 18 – 24th, where he mainly will do the last compositions, make selections and create transitions between the songs. The album will be made as a continuous listening experience.
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Åse Løvgren, Stine Gonsholt and Alexander Rishaug will be working at BEK March 11th – 16th. They will add sound to their video project, and do sound- and image editing. Also, they will record voice over.
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If you want to create something interactive for a screen (TV, computer screen, mobile, tray, VR), Unity is a good option. Inputs can be game controllers, keyboard and mouse, motion sensors, etc.
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Espen Sommer Eide, adviser in art and technology at BEK, has written the chapter Exercises in Non-Human Listening in this new book from Shelter Press. Sommer Eide examines possible connections between music and nature in the text, as well as trying to find inspiration in sensory biology in animals. The book is out March 7th, and is soon to be found in…
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In this new book edited by Tania Toft Ag, game developer and programmer Stian Remvik, who is affiliated with BEK on a freelance basis, shares his thoughts on how the digital inspires and influences his work. The book will be launched at Scandinavia House on February 23rd, and is soon to be found in BEK’s library!
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