The developers at BEK would agree with the idea that they could be compared to an instrument maker when they develop software for artists; although BEK’s intention is primarily to enable artists to develop the instruments themselves.
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Year after year, decade after decade, new technological innovations have enabled composers and musicians to enhance their craft, and nowadays there are almost countless options to examine and explore. Each new plugin promises new sonic universes to get lost in. Each new synthesizer claim to be sounding fresher than the last. Technology has made the impossible seem possible, the unreachable…
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On the 7th of November a new stage of the Torn Tracks project by Jiska Huizing (NL) will be launched at Visningsrommet USF. With help of BEK, the first version of a digital platform has been developed that offers various ways of searching and organizing the collection of tracks and sounds that form the basis of this project. Note: Performance…
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During Ekko Festival Roar Sletteland’s installation Dubtables will be on view at Lydgalleriet. The project has been developed at BEK, and is showing the basics of the vinyl as media – a rotating disc, arm, motor and stylus in an automated yet unpredictable DJ-sett. Dubtables is an audio installation with record players and dubplates that focus on the materiality and…
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Stian Remvik at BEK has designed and programmed the app Words Images Thoughts Objects, a site specific audio guide made by Vilde Salhus Røed for the Fine Art and Design Library, the University of Bergen Library. From Tuesday October 10th at 12.00, the audio guide will be available on iPads for use in the library, as well as for download at App Store and Google Play.
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BEK are delighted to present our first two BEK Studio Sessions “test guests”: Carsten Aniksdal & James Welburn. This week they are working together on a new composition in the sound studio here at BEK, and on Monday September 4th they will present their new work at Prøverommet. Presentation of BEK Studio Sessions (pilot): James Welburn & Carsten Aniksdal Time: Monday…
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In the summer of 2017 four artists associated with BEK are invited for one week residencies in the rural region of Fortore in South Italy. The artists will produce and present site-specific works and interventions responding to the rural conditions, developed in collaboration with local communities. The residencies are part of a bilateral sound art exchange program between Norway and…
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BEK hosts a developer workshop that focus on authoring of interactive media scenarios. The workshop gathers artists and developers associated with Studio de création et de recherche en informatique et musique électroacoustique – SCRIME at Université de Bordeaux, Verdensteatret and BEK for an intensive learning and development session. i-score is a free and open-source intermedia sequencer used in art and music…
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The artistic research project Blind Spot investigates a sensory phenomenon at the gravitational center of all material knowledge. The project researches the implications of the “blind spot” to artists in the visual and performing arts concerned with the implications of perception in human experience and society. The term “blind spot” stems from medical research into the optics of the eye. “The…
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BEK is a collaborating international partner in the Austrian artistic artistic research project Algorithms that Matter (ALMAT), lead by Hanns Holger Rutz and David Pirrò. ALMAT aims at understanding the increasing influence of algorithms, translating them into aesthetic positions in sound. It builds a new perspective on algorithm agency by subjecting the realm of algorithms to experimentation and diffractive reading. Algorithms are everywhere today,…
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