“I Dream of Wires” (by Robert Fantinatto, 2014) is a documentary about the rise, fall and rebirth of the machine that shaped electronic music: the modular synthesizer.
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Arduino is a small circuit board that you can use to bring the physical world into the data world, and the data world into the physical world. For example, you can measure temperature, light, CO2, distance, movement or humidity, and connect buttons, switches or displays to control and display information, or motors to set something in motion. If you see…
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Marieke Verbeisen will give the presentation “Bit Crushes & Square Waves” about her exhibition series Sonic Game Space at the Digital Narrative Network Conference. The conference and exhibition is a cross-faculty initiative that will present a keynote by N. Katherine Hayles on literature and AI, a series of presentations by scholars, artists and authors, and an exhibition of digital narratives.
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BEK is participating in the BABF – Bergen Art Book Fair 2019 at Bergen Kunsthall this weekend, where we show a small selection of books and publications from our library. On our table you will find the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, KairUs, Jøran Rudi, Ellen Røed, Nervous Vision, HC Gilje, Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina, Josephine Bosma, and more. Marieke Verbiesen…
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Stian Ramvik at BEK is helping Sabine Popp with synchronization of video material for the upcoming exhibition Relay (how to use a ship to press the button of a camera) which opens at Visningsrommet USF on December 3. The video material forms the framework for a performance, and Popp need to easily control the synchronized videos as part of this.…
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A short, intensive workshop exploring the current state of machine learning techniques for working creatively with audio. As a set of approaches for predictive pattern-matching—classifying, categorizing, translating, generating, etc—machine learning has been applied to everything from captions to gestures to maps to MIDI. Audio, with its intensely complex set of perceptual and contextual resonances, provides a tricky and illuminating challenge…
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In this Verktøykassen (the Toolbox) we will learn how to map video on specific surfaces. It can be an object in the room, a house wall, or simply that you want to be in full control over how much of a surface your video will cover. We will use the software MadMapper.
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Inspired by the novel The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, Espen Sommer Eide makes an eponymous spatial music album for Marres. During the exhibtion, the album will ‘live’ inside the house as well as launched on vinyl at the opening on November 15th. In the development of both sound compositions, the new instruments and the speaker technologies used in the project,…
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Scott Elliott will premiere an extract from his text work in the form of a radio play at Belgin on November 7th at 20:00. Recording of readings for the radio play has been made in BEK’s sound studio.
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In the Anthems project, Amber Ablett has been learning the national anthems of countries that people have asked her if she comes from. Ablett has worked closely with BEK since the beginning of the project, discussing conceptual questions, developing a way to film performance into video works, and working out the 12 channel sound installation that will be exhibited at…
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