We will be back from Summer holidays at BEK from August 5th, and will start the season off with Reality-based Audio Workshop at Struer Tracks, book presentation of “Elektrisk lyd i Norge” (“Electric Sound in Norway”) and concert, and a concert with Loud Matter at Østre.
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Welcome to the second part of the workshop politics of transcription with Amy Pickles, Hordaland kunstsenter’s artist in residence in May and June 2019. During her stay, she will host two workshops which are free and open to all. First workshop was held at Hordaland kunstsenter Friday June 14th.
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Hello summer! We will set up the speakers and run an open playlist so everyone can dance into the summer to their favorite songs. You are welcome from 21:00! Will there be sun on the roof terrace?
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This workshop will demonstrate how performed spatialisation of stereo sources, over a moderately sized loudspeaker array, can create a dynamic, immediate, versatile and immersive 3-D sound experience, enhancing the music for a concert audience. The evening concert is open for the audience, and will feature a showcase of works from Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett, as well as extracts from the…
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By invitation from Bergen Domkor and BEK, the young Bergen-based artist Andrea Urstad Toft has made two new video works that will be projected directly on the brick walls of Bergen domkirke during the choir’s Bergen International Festival concert on May 29th. After a 3-week work residency in BEK’s video studio, the process manifests in sensitive pictures and animations that…
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A selection of local and international sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will be built around a multi-mono wall of speakers. Some acts will be performed live and some will be per-composed and playback.
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Welcome to the performance of Lenis plassar – an auditory interpretation of Øivind Rimbereid’s poem, read by Siri Ingul and Kristian Berg-Jåtten with music by Arthur Hureau.
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BEK presents Cinema B-open and invites you to the open studio of Morten Poulsen during this years B-open. Welcome on Saturday April 27th from 12.00 to 17.00!
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A selection of sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will present traditional analogue diffusion style with different speakers non-symmetrically spread in the room. Some acts will be performed live and some will be pre-composed…
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The exhibition Cataract by Vilde Salhus Røed at Visningsrommet USF revolves around some inherited negative roll films that once were exposed, but have been sitting undeveloped in the cartridges for decades. The title piece Cataract was developed at BEK earlier this winter during a work residency, and it is BEK’s equipment that is used in the playback of this sound…
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