Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

BEK is happy to announce that Anders Elsrud Hultgreen will be working at BEK to develop a video artwork.

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Søren Andreasen will hold an Arduino workshop at BEK Monday 10. – Friday 14th June. The course is free, join by mailing us.

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BEK, the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, would like to invite local artists to send in a proposal for the commision of a video/artwork, to be produced at BEK and subsequently screened at SCREEN CITY Festival, Stavanger, 25 Oct – 5 Nov 2013. The proposal should be for the production of a new video/artwork, its vital that the work should be presented in public space.

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The latest issue of the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) includes an article on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF) by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan Schacher, entitled “The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format: Principles, Specification, and Examples”.

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BEK has commissioned a new electro-acoustic composition from Anders Vinjar, one of the foremost experts in Norway on OpenMusic and computer-aided composition. The commisioned work will make use of ambisonics coding, shaping and decoding, algorithmic composition, artistic programming and work with 3D sound and spatialization. BEK also supports Anders in his effort to port Open Music to Linux, and over the next year we are planning several exciting workshops relating to OpenMusic.

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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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