During Kulturnatt Bergen this year, BEK invites you to visit our project spaces for screenings of the film Electrical Gaza by Rosalind Nashashibi and the video work The Carrier by Hanan Benammar.
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BandOrg is organising the SMELTA workshop at BEK on 12 September, where participants will be able to solder and bring home a pedal featuring shortcuts to chorus, vibrato, synthetic reverb, metallic comb filter, and granular synthesis.
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The Norwegian composer and artistic researcher Tze Yeung Ho is in a studio residency at BEK, working on the collaborative project "lipsync serenades for softer occasions", with the textile artist Kholod Hawash and the performance artist Josh Spear. The work is written for voice and theorbo, for the soprano Linnéa Sundfær Casserly and theorbo player Tomas Laukvik Nannestad.
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BEK invites friends, collaborators and new faces for a season opening in our spaces in C. Sundts gate 55, on Friday 23 August at 19:00. Come and join us, when we launch our autumn program, and enjoy one of the last summer evenings together.
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BEK has invited Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mark Fell and Rian Treanor to a 2 week research trip to Longyearbyen and Pyramiden on Svalbard, collecting and analysing material around the settlements, industries and scientific stations, placed midst in the hostile Arctic landscape, as well as in the center of various geopolitical and geostrategic blueprints.
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BEK will go on summer holiday in July, but a couple of artists will work in our studios during the summer. Save the date Friday 23 August for our annual summer party in C. Sundts gate 55. We wish you all a wonderful summer!
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BEK is proud to present the MA Graduate Studio Residency Award. Kick starting this new collaboration between BEK and KMD/UiB, we offer three residencies to recent graduates from the Art Academy. These newly established Bergen based artists will get to take over the entire floors of BEK, including our video studio, sound studio and electronics lab for 2 weeks later…
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SATURDAY 15 JUNEØSTRE & THE UNFINISHED INSTITUTION On Saturday 15 June, Ekko announces the first names of artists for Ekko Festival 2024. Join us for this one day release event featuring a performance by Mark Fell and Rian Treanor, the opening of Emily Adomah’s new sound piece “Den 25te symfoni” and a dj-set by CCL (Subglow) & Ekko djs. In…
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Join us for a workshop at BEK, where we dive into the field of neural audio synthesis, a novel audio synthesis technique enabled by advancements in real-time deep learning. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore the evolution of sound synthesis alongside artificial neural networks, train their own generative sound synthesizers and explore their sonic possibilities using SEMILLA.AI. Throughout…
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In this workshop, Jenny Berger Myhre invites the participants to create a collective composition based on field recordings and found sound. In addition there will be an introduction in the use of the sound editing program Ableton Live for participants wanting that. We will go through some of the methods Jenny uses to create music from sound archives, by first…
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