Trond Lossius will participate in the workshop Sketching Sonic Interaction Design at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. The workshop is followed by meetings related to the COST-SID research project on Sonic Interaction Design.
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In 1948, Pierre Schaeffer broadcast over French radio a “Concert of Noises”, a set of pieces composed entirely from recordings of train whistles, spinning tops, pots and pans, canal boats, percussive instruments and the occasional piano. This week we read a text by Schaeffer on Acousmatics and listen to excerpts from works by Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and others. “Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and The Bergen National Academy of the Arts.
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This session will be divided into two parts. First we will listen to some examples of early electronic and experimental sound and music, and next we will look into the World Soundscape Project, initiated by R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the early 70s, providing a critical documentation and examination of the urban and rural soundscapes surrounding us. “Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and The Bergen National Academy of the Arts.
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We’ll continue where we left of last time, looking at maths, with a particular emphasis on functions and how they might be used for controlling algorithmic processes and for mapping of data. loadbang is a collaboration between BEK and KHIB.
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POW Ensemble played the Borealisfestival 2009 with electronic tap dancing. Now they are back in Bergen, this time with an electronic dissection of the guitar. In addition to the Landmark concert on Sunday, they will present their work and techniques at BEK on Monday 26. October
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Michelle Teran (Canada), nominated for a “Transmediale 2010 Award”, will do a selfpresentation at HKS, as part of BEKs ongoing presentation series.
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This workshop, headed by Margareta Zetterblom, Trond Lossius and Hilde Hauan Johnson, investigates possible relationships between textiles and sound. Textiles can shape stage and installation spaces cisually, at the same time as modifying the acoustic properties of the space.
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For this weeks session on advanced topics in real-time processing of media, we will be looking at maths, with a particular emphasis on functions and how they might be used for controlling algorithmic processes and for mapping of data. loadbang is a collaboration between BEK and KHIB.
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BEK introduce a new regular activity labeled Listening to Donald Judd… in collaboration with Bergen National Academy of the Arts. At regular intervals we will meet to listen to and discuss selected works of contemporary music and sound art, accompanied by relevant literature. The first session will be focusing on futurism, and in particular the manifesto The Art of Noise, written by Luigo Russolo in 1913.
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Peter Sinclair is an English sound artist living in Marseille, France. At Kunstakademiet, Bergen, he will talk about his own artistic works, the sound lab Locus Sonus, and give a short introduction to the PhD-program where he participates.
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