Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

In her solo exhibition “Standard Primitives”, Magnhild Øen Nordahl presents three new works made especially for this exhibition at Hordaland kunstsenter: A sculpture series, an animation film and a video work. Filming and editing is supported by BEK. In the video work The Distance to the Horizon, we find ourselves at sea, with only waves and the horizon in sight.…

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I have left you the mountain presents ten new texts written by contemporary writers and thinkers on the architecture of displacement. These texts have been set to music and sung by some of the last remaining groups of Albanian iso-polyphonic singers, an art form now protected as “intangible cultural heritage” by UNESCO. Pavilion sound design and programming by Peter Meanwell…

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During the weekend of December 3-4th, BEK invited artists working with video to share and discuss practices. The aim of the seminar and workshop was to broaden the understanding of the video medium’s possibilities today, through a practical and theoretical exploration of technology, process and work.

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In this workshop you will build your own unique DIY digital effect pedal based on the Raspberry PI computer and Csound. Particpants are guided in mechanical fitting, soldering of connections, and are given a basic software introduction.

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Mareike Dobewall and Gisli Gretarsson will do a residency at BEK in mid Octobre. Friday 21st they will share their findings in an artist talk and discuss the future of their project „Voiceland“.

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The paper Authoring spatial music with SpatDIF Version 0.4 by Jan C. Schacher, Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Chikashi Miyama will be presented at the 13th Sound and Music Comuting Conference and Summer School in Hamburg. In addition to attending the conference, Trond Lossius has been invited to lecture at the Summer School, offering perspectives on Current issues in multimedia performance, and a lecture on Ambisonics and SpatDIF.

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The latest edition of Ideas Sónicas / Sonic Ideas (Vol. 8 No. 16) offers a Spanish translation of a paper by Trond Lossius and Joseph Anderson on the Ambisonic Toolkit for Reaper plugins. Ideas Sónicas is published by CMMAS – Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras.

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BEK is co-producing several projects for this years Bergen Assembly. Since 2014 we have developed content together with Bergen Assembly-curators, artists and administration. It has been a deep digging experience, and we are looking forward to see, hear and feel the results.

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The multi channel video installation Magic of Seven depicts collective exercises involving seven women, juxtaposed with archival material from various wars that unfold. The exhibition opens at Gallery 3,14 on Friday 19th August. The video work is edited at BEK, and Stian Remvik has contributed with screen syncronization and sound-to-light programming.

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Marieke Verbiesen will travel to NIME 2016 – New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2016 to present BEK, projects we have worked with, and her own project Mayhem Machine, in Brisbane, Australia.

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