“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…
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BEK meets EKKO: Musical collaborations and alternate methods for production.Marieke Verbiesen in conversation with Andy Jenkins (UK), Gareth Morris (UK) and Julian van Aalderen (NL)
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During his Work Residency at BEK Mathias Loose will investigate MIDI-libraries in collaboration with Craig Wells (sound-artist), Lorie Ballage (sculpture and singer) and Samuel Brzeski (visual artist and poet). Throughout the week they will investigate and create sample-libraries. Collectively they will find and make examples, converse and trying out plug-ins, and go into foley/field recording mode to collect and extract…
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In her new project for Volt, which will take the form as a performance and an exhibition, Nora Joung uses legal documents from 1982 as a starting point to examine a court ruling which determined that it’s not illegal for politicians to break promises made to their voters. At BEK Joung will record and mix voiceover for a video work,…
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In this Verktøykassen we will do sound recordings, and look into how different microphones can be used for different purposes. When is it good to use a directional microphone? And what microphones and microphone techniques are useful in field recordings? We will go through contact microphones, shotgun, stereo microphones, dpa, ambisonic, microphones for electromagnetic recordings, hydrophones, geophones, parabolas and microphone…
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For the Vestlandsutstillingen 2019, Jiska Huizing was invited with the project Torn Tracks to create site-specific sound works for all the six places the exhibition has visited. BEK/Espen Sommer Eide has helped develop Torn Tracks, which is a digital interactive platform with different ways to search and organize the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of the…
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Marieke Verbiesen will exhibit her audiovisual interactive instrument Sonic Tornado at this years Amsterdam Dance Event’s exhibition “100 years of electronic music instruments”.
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In their ongoing research “Mapping Smart Futures (MSF)”, KairUs are interested in exploring methods which brings forth new forms of artistic research, especially in context of digitalization and everyday use of technology in urban environments. At BEK they will work on a multi-channel video installation based on recorded material from smart city visits, marketing material published by corporations and smart…
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The video The Valley is shown during this year’s Greenlightdistrict – the interdisciplinary art festival in Skien that sheds light on issues related to nature, industry, climate and the environment. In The Valley, the small village of Dale in Western Norway is used as a prism to look at global changes related to production and economy. The video was created…
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Our new Project Developer at BEK Åse Løvgren and Director Lars Ove Toft will participate in Future DiverCities’ partner meeting in Liepaja, Latvia, September 25 – 27. We look forward to introducing Åse to the other partners and involving her in this big EU cooperation. Future DiverCities is entering its final phase, and in Liepaja plans for a comprehensive art…
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