Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

This workshop will demonstrate how performed spatialisation of stereo sources, over a moderately sized loudspeaker array, can create a dynamic, immediate, versatile and immersive 3-D sound experience, enhancing the music for a concert audience. The evening concert is open for the audience, and will feature a showcase of works from Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett, as well as extracts from the…

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During the week of June 10 – 16th, it is time for another Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We will use last year’s seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology as our point of departure, and have invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result will be released in a…

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By invitation from Bergen Domkor and BEK, the young Bergen-based artist Andrea Urstad Toft has made two new video works that will be projected directly on the brick walls of Bergen domkirke during the choir’s Bergen International Festival concert on May 29th. After a 3-week work residency in BEK’s video studio, the process manifests in sensitive pictures and animations that…

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This week the artist duo Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi is working in our video studio. Towards 2021 they will have several work residencies at BEK to develop and realise Are You Ready? – a hybrid tv series. During this first residency they will do pre-production, production and post production.

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In this last Verktøykassen before the summer, we will present three different data-based creative tools: TouchDesigner, Vuo and openFrameworks. TouchDesigner and Vuo are visual exhibition platforms, while in openFrameworks you code with C ++. With these tools you can, for example, create and change video and animation in real time, create interactive user experiences or make visualization for music.

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A selection of local and international sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will be built around a multi-mono wall of speakers. Some acts will be performed live and some will be per-composed and playback.

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Welcome to the performance of Lenis plassar – an auditory interpretation of Øivind Rimbereid’s poem, read by Siri Ingul and Kristian Berg-Jåtten with music by Arthur Hureau.

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BEK presents Cinema B-open and invites you to the open studio of Morten Poulsen during this years B-open. Welcome on Saturday April 27th from 12.00 to 17.00!

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Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Wednesday April 24th Adam Parkinson and Tine Surel Lange presented the results of their collaboration during…

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This Verktøykassen will be about LED lights and Arduino. Connecting one LED light to an Arduino is not very difficult, but what if you want to connect to 50 lights or LED strips? We will look at what type of Arduino accessories, how much power is needed and how to connect everything to make this happen.

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