BEK Opening Week: Sound performances: tonota, Arthur Hureau
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Please join us for two exciting sound performances as part of BEK Opening Week 2023! Our recent studio resident tonota performs her multichannel work “uncertainty”, followed by a multichannel live set from Arthur Hureau.
Saturday 25 February
18:00 Doors open. 19:00 Concert starts
BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor
Free and open for all (no registration required!)
tonota: “uncertainty“
“uncertainty” is a spatial sound composition that aims to portray a feeling of uncertainty and the ways in which people cope with it. The inspiration for the piece is derived from life during the pandemic; from the drastic changes the author’s career went through, aiming to devote herself to music full-time; and from the conversations she had with her sister while writing her Master’s thesis “Experience of people with the obsessive-compulsive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic”. For people with OCD, coping with the unknown is quite demanding, and for all of these reasons, for tonota, uncertainty became a loud background noise that was difficult to assuage. tonota portrays a sense of uncertainty in its overwhelming feeling of confusion and loss of clear judgment, employing rhythmic patterns and other sonic elements to depict ways in which people try to find comfort in establishing order where there is none. Her compositional techniques have been influenced by Beatrice Dillon’s piece Workaround and Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians.The work was commissioned and produced by KONTEJNER, and it was developed during the artist residency at BEK.
Ivona Eterović (tonota) is a music producer, composer and psychologist from Zagreb. Her artistic activity is characterized by independent, as well as collaborative work in which she strives to create her own unique sound marked by introspection and multidimensional emotional charge. tonota combines elements of ambient and bass music with analogue and digital sound design, but tries not to limit her work by constraints of genre. Together with producer varboska and light designer and VJ Filip Pacak, she created the audiovisual project “Interference”, first as an AV experiment (ZEZ festival, 2022), which then developed into a multi-channel audiovisual performance (Pogon Jedinstvo, 2022). She has performed at several festivals and events: as tonota at ZEZ, Illectricity, Grounded and numerous events of the VOLTA collective, and as a member of duo Playground Hustle at Ferragosto Jam, Seasplash, and supporting artists such as Edo Maajka, Elemental, Marcel, Sassja and others.
Arthur Hureau: live set
Arthur Hureau plays musical works, recent as well as gems from his back catalogue, in a live set with a multichannel setup. He draws on his sound based practice within a cross-disciplinary field merging contemporary music composition, electronic music, engineering and sound-design.
Antoine “Arthur” Hureau is a composer, sound-designer, engineer and consultant living in Bergen. He has a sound based practice evolving within a cross-disciplinary field merging contemporary music composition, electronic music, engineering and sound-design. He is very sensitive to current social, environmental and political topics related to technology and advocates for open science, free education, and free and open source technologies.
Photos – 1,2) tonota performing “uncertainty” at Gibanja 2023. The work was commissioned and produced by KONTEJNER, and it was developed during the artist residency at Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts – BEK. Photo: Sanja Bistričić Srića. 3) Arthur Hureau. Photo: Nayara Leite.
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