The Borealis London Launch will take place at the Kings Place in London on January 25. Featured artists include Bjørnar Habbestad and Pascal Baltazar, MOHA!, Mark Knoop and Rolf Borch. Also featuring a specially created escalator game piece by Simon Katan with members of Trinity College of Music.
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Gerhard Eckel is Professor of Computer Music and Multimedia at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG) in Graz, Austria. He creates sound and music installations for real and virtual spaces, which are presented at international festivals, conferences and trade fairs as well as in museums and galleries. He is currently artist-in-residency in Bergen, working on a commision for the upcoming Borealis festival.
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Mahlet Ogbe’s contribution to the new exibition at Gallery 3,14, is a video piece based on how grief and mourning is expressed in her homeland Eritrea. It’s shown inside the old bank vault, which gives a close and intens experience of what this videowork is about.
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Trond Lossius will be visiting Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing at Helsinki University of Technology. During the visit he will give a short talk on the use of spatialisation in his artistic work, and development related to spatialiation within the framework of Jamoma.
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Trond Lossius is invited to give self presentation at MUU galleria in Helsinki, discussing recent works with a focus on sound installations using Max/MSP. The presentation is part of an Interactive Sound art class organized by Muu Media Base from December 2009 until March 2010. The course is focusing on sound and installation using the Max/MSP software.
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Marìa Andueza Olmedo is writhing a PhD thesis about Sound Art called “Urban Site-Specific Sound Installations”. Thanks to a grant of the NILS mobility project for researchers and artists, she will move from Madrid to Bergen for 3 months, to continue her research at BEK and at the National Academy of the Arts.
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Trond Lossius (BEK) & Pascal Baltazar (GMEA) will be giving a presentation at The Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London. An introduction to Jamoma will be provided with particular emphasis on work on spatialisation and DBAP.
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Ezequiel Menalled is a Argentin composer based in Netherlands. He is currently artist in residency at USF. He will be presenting his work, and also provide a brief introduction to the software AC Toolbox. AC Toolbox is a program for algorithmic og computer-aided composition developed by Paul Berg at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague, Netherlands.
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The 6th Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) within COST-IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design is now out. STSMs are aimed at strengthening the existing networks by allowing scientists to go to an institution or laboratory in another COST member state to foster collaboration and exchange. Anyone interested in applying for a mission from/to BEK, please contact Trond Lossius.
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After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, “In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.” I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, “In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.” “Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and KHIB.
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