Sunday 5 and Monday 6 May, Bergen Improstorband invites you to an instrument building workshop with Johannes Bergmark at BEK. The goal is to create your own instrument to use at concerts on Tuesday 7 May at the Library, Østre and Cafe Opera.
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Max 6.1 introduced a new feature called Packages, making it easier to distribute 3rd party extensions to Max. In order to cater for Jamoma users eager to use Max 6.1.we have now added a hand-crafted package for Jamoma 0.5.7 to the Jamoma web site.
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Sourround sound is used for film production, games, electronic music, video and sound installations and in sound design for stage. This workshop provides a practical and creative introduction to the topics for beginners, with a particular emphasis on equipment available at BEK and software developed at BEK.
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The Jamoma web site has been long overdue for an overhaul. Over Christmas extensive development has been carried out. The new web site consolidate information, tutorials and a news section. Jamoma is a set of software frameworks for real-tme media processing in artistic and creative projects.
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The artist Peter Flemming will come to BEK and lead one day workshop with high experimentation factor; Fredag 23rd of November / 11-16. Electromagnetism, experimental speaker, found material, ready-mades, ressonans, DIY, lunch, art, BEK, Peter Flemming, you.
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The last Max meetup before the summer will be on June 8th. This is a monthly opportunity for artists using Max to come together and share ideas and patches and get help with problems they are stuck at.
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BEK offers a one-week introductory workshop to the software Max. Max is an intuitive graphical environment for real-time processing of all kinds of media (sound, video, MIDI, light, sensors and robotics), and can be used for music, sound art, video, installations, works for stage and in interaction design. Instructor is Trond Lossius.
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From Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th of December, BEK hosts a workshop in OpenFrameworks; a programming language develloped and applied in interactive artworks. OpenFrameworks is a powerful open source tool designed to simplify building creative applications, it has rapidly become one of the tools of choice for a new era of creative designers.
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Monday 6, Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December BEK runs a VPT workshop. HC Gilje will provide a basic introduction to the use of a video projection tool he has developed. The workshop will consist of introduction, setup to get started, and then groups of three people each will work “hands on” testing different projections. Free admission. Registration by mail to bek[at]bek.no
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Trond Lossius participates at a GDIF SpatDIF meeting at Ircam. The goal of the meeting is to advance on the GDIF-Gesture Description Interchange Format and SpatDIF-Spatial sound Description Interchange Format, discussing current issues and choices made by the different research groups working with gesture or spatialization data, and decide on further collaborative actions.
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