Over the summer Birk has provided live video for a number of concerts at festivals in Norway and abroad, working with the jazz trio Jøkleba, the bands Vanilla Riot, The Megaphonic Thrift, Young Dreams and The New Wine, as well as rap artist Lars Vaular.
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BEK is pleased to welcome Nathan Wolek as a Fulbright Scholar. Nathan will be a guest researcher at BEK for 6 months commencing August 1 2012. During the stay his research will be focusing on granular synthesis, and more specifically on porting The Granular Toolkit, a package for creating granular synthesis effects within Max, to Jamoma.
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Walter Langelaar & Worm.org. Presentation of the Institute for avant-garde Recreation at BEK Friday 8th June at 16:00. Barbeque on the terrace after the presentation.
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The paper An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments by Nils Peters , Trond Lossius & Tim Place will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen. Software development benefits from systematic testing with respect to implementation, optimization, and maintenance. The paper reports on how automated testing is implemented and used for Jamoma to test C++ code as well as Max externals and patches.
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The paper SpatDIF: Principles, specification, and examples by Nils Peters , Jan Schacher & Trond Lossius will be presented at Sound and Music Computing Conference 2012 in Copenhagen. SpatDIF, the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, offers a semantic and syntactic specification for storing and transmitting spatial audio scene descriptions. The paper provides an overview of the specification and discuss two use cases.
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Concert celebrating the CD release of Suspended Beginnings. June 6th 2000 at Drivhuset, Oslo Tickets 50 NOK. Victoria Johnson – el-violin and electronics Diemo Schwarz – laptop Peter Tornquist – laptop Cato Langnes (NOTAM) – sound
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Marieke Verbiesen will be in Copenhagen to give a live animation workshop and collaborative performance at the Click New Media Art Festival in Helsingør Denmark.
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Rad#4 er et sekstimers kunstarrangement i Latinskolen fra 1706, i Mesterlektien, den 16.juni kl 18.00. Programmet består av opplesninger fra tekster valgt ut av et antall inviterte lesere. Utvalget er igjen satt sammen til en komposisjon av opplesning, foredrag, lyd, musikk, mat, performative grep, poesi og film.
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IKEA Bergen are moving to new premisses in Åsane. The last Saturday before the move Borealis music festival organize an event at the old store. Trond Lossius and Anna Wignell will present the site-specific installation Pieces of bits while disassembling (for IKEA), while Roar Sletteland will present Eske med platespiller.
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Galleri Fisk exhibits works by Barbora Švarcova & Dana Machajová, two art students from Prague. BEK provides equipment to the exhibition.
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