Thorolf Thuestad from BEK runs the electronic processing when the BIT20 ensemble invites to Arne Norheim’s memorial concert in Håkonshallen the 21st of November. The cooperation between Thorolf Thuestad and BIT20 is a sequel from a larger Nordheim project that BEK was a part of in 2006.
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Following Transiteatret’s performance Ressentiment, BEK will organise a seminar on sound design in stage productions. The sound design in Ressentiment was developed in collaboration with BEK, and we want to present the results at this seminar.
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Maria Øy Lojo and Maia Urstad contributes with the installation Odd Mirrors at Barnas Kulturhus’ christmas production Aurora Julialis. One of the rooms in the house will be devoted to a sound and light. Opens Saturday 27. at 13.00 at Kalmargaten 6. Bring the kids, and the child in you! Open weekdays to Kindergardens and Schools at 9.45 – 11.45, open to the public on Saturdays at 13.30 – 15.30
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Ressentiment – Pavane til en død prinsesse premieres at DNS Thuesday 23. November at 19.00, and is played the following 4 days. In the performance we follow a scientist who in his meeting with a scientific committee, discloses his test results but gets bigger and bigger problems, and is ultimately rejected. In this manner Transiteatret adresses natural science’s tendency to describe people using fixed sizes, and what this might entail. Tickets: 200,/100, at DNS ticket office
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29. November and 30. November: Basic 6 hours introduction course in video editing and using our videostudio.
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15. November and 16. November from 12.00 – 19.00 In this course we will be filming with various cameras for various purposes and learn basic camera use.
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Saturday and Sunday BEK will open it’s doors to show a little bit of what we’ve been up to lately. All project rooms will be filled with sound, video and electronics that has been developed at BEK. If you walk your way to the top floor at C. Sundtsgt. 55, you will be rewarded with an extra treat!!!
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The studios at BEK has been in frequent use recently by artists preparing their work for the great BG01 – exhibition at Bergen Art Museum. TelArt by Bjørnar Habbestad and Jørgen Larsson is back “remixed”, Eva Ljosvoll presents her new video work In Midair, Trond Lossius has been refining his LMW partnership with the help of BEK’s new field recording equipment, and Maia Urstad has re-mounted Sound Barrier.
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BEK has been awarded the white walls and high ceilings of Borggården USF during the period 11 – 29 October. Mattias Arvastsson and Maria Øy Lojo will present their brand new videoworks. Interactions between moving images and spatial surfaces will be accentuated. Web-TV
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Phonophani, a.k.a. Espen Sommer Eide, is performing at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, the 20th of October, as part of the EKKO festival. His new CD Kreken is now released on Rune Grammofon and has received good reviews. So prepear yourself for a glorious EKKO-evening together with Phonophani, Jeff Carey and Tim Hecker.
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