Moviestar is an interactive installation where the visitor plays the mainrole. The installation blends live recording from visitors, that will find themselves on a real lifesize filmset amongst cameras, lights and a bluescreen studio.
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The Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide at BEK spring 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway.
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Jamoma is a platform for interactive art-based research and performance. It consists of several parallell development efforts.
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Touring exhibition for children. BEK develops technical soltions for the touring exhibition for children,“Fiskeboller i Karri”, produced by Hanne Hilt.
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Bjørnar Habbestad and Jeff Carey collaborates on development of software for RESPIRATOR – an art-based research project initiated by Bjørnar Habbestad. Jeff Carey will also be giving a concert at Lydgalleriet Friday June 19 at 2100.
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The work is based on recordings of the local Suldal dialect and functions as a sonic post card. The semantic meaning becomes subordinate to the sounding qualities of the words and dialect.
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The paper A stratified approach for sound spatialization by Peters et al. will be presented as a poster at The 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference in Porto, July 2009.
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The Folkophone – The first song: The organic organ is the OiOi festival instrument. Not everyone can play the Folkophone, but the Folkophone can play on anyone. This year’s theme is the very first sounds we make in life.
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Several works by Knut Wiggen will be performed at the Bergen International Festival 2009. Knut Wiggen, a pioneer of electronic music, will be presented through a conversation with Tilman Hartenstein, expert on sound art, and Zaid Holmin, programmer at EMS.
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BEK assists the composer Knut Vaage in the development of the opera “Khairos”. The opera is comissioned by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and is planned to be premiered in 2012. Vaage’s previous opera “Veslefrikk”, where BEK also contributed, won the ARTE audience award for best production at Armel Opera Competition and Festival in Hungary.
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