Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

During her work residency at BEK, singer and composer Hilde Annine Hasselberg will prepare audio material for the project Et lite barn (A Little Child); a concert that draws parallels between the Christmas gospel and the current refugee crisis. The sound material will mainly be developed in Ableton Live with the use of natural sounds related to the story being told in the work. During the concert, this sound material will function both as an audible backdrop and as an instrument that Hasselberg can use live on stage.

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During their work residency at BEK, Emilie Wright has been working in the sound studio composing and recording new works for immersive listening. The culmination of their work in progress, Serpent and the Egg, will be a multichannel composition of sonic fiction that incorporates improvised found objects, vocal arrangements, field recordings and synthesisers.

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Etchings of coastal sites is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Andrea Urstad ToftCraig T. Wells, Omar E. Johnsen, and Stian Remvik. The project will excavate certain rural sites of western Norway, and through the processes of montage, collage and cinematic time lapsing where the artists will focus on the notion of accelerating time image and disjointed scene transitions.

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Karen Werner is doing a Work Residency at BEK - from home. In her dining room she has set up a SkottegatenFM transmission point from where she is transmitting daily and is helping interested neighbours broadcast from their homes. SkottegatenFM is a three-month micro-FM radio station transmitting at 88.6FM from homes on Skottegaten and surrounding streets in Nordnes. Anyone in listening range can tune in!

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At their Work Residency at BEK, Hedén will develop a soundscape, deepen their knowledge and produce new material as well as mixing a line of finite compositions for the project Inner Beings. In collaboration with singer and composer Agnes Whizdalek, they will explore the use of voice in techno music and record samples that will be processed and integrated in Hedén’s sound world.

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For the exhibition Numinous Beginnings at Lydgalleriet, Anne Cecilie Lie has made a new version of the geolocative site-sensitive sound-walk Entangled Formations initially created for the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The new sound-walk, placed at Nordnes in Bergen, focuses on bird species that could call both places home. At a time when travel is difficult, Entangled Formation – Bergen Edition, offers…

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During the work residency at BEK, Kim Hankyul will develop a new body of work for the upcoming solo show at Gyldenpris Kunsthall later in the autumn 2021. In the project, analogue sound plates will be scrutinized as physical bodies with literary scenery, each of which has a potential of storing a narrative in the format of physical projection and…

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Download the BITWaves2 app for free: AppleAndroid BITWaves allows you to record sound and play audio by moving your fingers across the screen. With the new version, you can also play polyphonic sound by using several fingers at once. Moving your fingers across the screen, you can make the sounds become lower and slower. What does the clinking of a…

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BEK follows up the success of the first Machine learning for sound-makers workshop, with Luke Fischbecq (ph.d USC), this time as an online week-long workshop. Old and new participants will investigate the latest AI technologies on working with art and machine learning. Main focus is still audio, but also visual projects will be investigated to broaden the scope of the…

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In their two week work residency at BEK, Laurie Lax and Lucila Mayol will be working on a teaser of Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn (AF:S) – an Interactive Fiction with sound, based on the remote fjord of Sagfjordbotn in Nordland. The teaser will focus on a portion of material they collected in July, and give a tangible sense of the look…

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