In the workshop that BEK arranges this week, some of Norway’s most experienced sound artists engulf in the relationship between sound and reality. Notions of “place” must be seen in new light when concepts such as “post truth” and “fake news” in recent years have become actualized. Do we need to find new ways to do reality-based audio recordings when…
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In the fall of 2017 James Welburn and Carsten Aniksdal was the first two musicians to meet in BEK’s sound studio to collaborate on a new composition, in the pilot version of what became BEK Studio Sessions. Now they are releasing two new tracks in cassette format on the Italian tape label Subsidence.
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Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Studio Sessions #1 – Toktek and Eva Pfitzenmaier from BEK.no on Vimeo. For the first Studio…
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Anne Marthe Dyvi at BEK has specially made an exposition for the very first issue of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. This is not / Dette er ikke is a revisit of several of Dyvi’s video works, and she re-examines how they establish a visual and non-verbal language through the use of colour, movement, form and time. The…
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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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