Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Together with Bergen-based artists, BEK is organising a day of concerts in support of the work that is being done by Beirut Synth Center and Tunefork Studios for displaced people in Lebanon. 

Contributing artists: Daiyen Jone, Karina Sletten, NA_OSC, Stephan Meidell, Feronia Wennborg, Tapage.

Place: BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, 9th floor
Time: Saturday, 14 December 14:00–22:00
CC: pay-what-you-can, vipps  #87779
Live stream (in addition to live concerts at BEK): https://vimeo.com/event/4780695

Detailed programme:
14:00 – Doors open
14:30 – NA_OSC
16:15 – Stephan Meidell
17:30 – Feronia Wennborg
18:00 – Daiyen Jone
19:15 – Karina Sletten
20:00 – Tapage
Changes to the schedule may occur.

As Israeli attacks on Lebanon intensify, more people are getting displaced every day, and the demand for emergency relief is growing. Our colleagues and friends in Beirut Synthesizer Centre and Tunefork Studios in Beirut are currently working as crisis centres collecting and distributing emergency aid. They urgently need funds to buy basic necessities for families in need. Solidarity and mutual aid is the only way forward.

If you can contribute, you can vipps BEK during, before or after the event.

– Vipps BEK at #87779
– For transfers from outside Norway and Sweden, email bek@bek.no (PayPal, Crypto, Bank transfer, Western Union)

Throughout the day, we will be serving some comfort food, and a simple bar will be open. If you are not in Bergen you can join in on the stream, and donate online. All the proceeds will go uncut to Beirut Synth Center and Tunefork Studios.

We are thankful to all the people contributing pro bono to the event: all the artists are playing for free, the live stream of the concerts is done by Leo Preston and Wrap, and the design is made by Blank Blank studio.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Daiyen Jone is a multi-instrumentalist, musician and composer from Cuba, based in Bergen. Utilizing vocals, percussion, flutes and electronics, Daiyen combines acoustic and electronic elements, where the influence of her traditional Afro-Cuban roots meets a modern and experimental musical expression. For Daiyen, concerts are a creative process, with musical impulses and improvisation as the driving force to build unique soundscapes.

Karina Sletten is a Bergen-based multidisciplinary artist who works with sound, performance, video, and relational aesthetics. Karina’s projects explore places where people, nature, and human design coexist, and they often use abandoned locations or objects as a starting point. Sletten has radio experience, which often gives their works a narrative style, where the message and reflections are integrated into the work as an interactive part of the art.

NA_OSC is the experimental dark ambient project of Marius Bakke and Lars Andreas Forthun. The project was conceived in their shared studio at Bergen Kjøtt, and they played in Tårnsalen during this year’s Ekkofestival. Expect immersive soundscapes, inspired by the North Atlantic.

Guitarist Stephan Meidell is a synthesist – a musical adventurer whose music exists where genres dissolve into fragments that can be picked apart and combined in new ways. Meidell engages with sounds from electronic, acoustic, and electromechanical instruments and machines and then recontextualizes them in new and surprising ways. He has released numerous albums and has written commissions for dance, theatre, and audiovisual collaborations.

Feronia Wennborg is an artist and musician working across performance, installation, sound, text and digital media. Her work is based on processes of recording and digital transformation, collecting traces of intimacy and friendship. Often working in close collaboration with others, Feronia explores the social and re-imaginative possibilities embedded in the practises of listening and sounding.

For well over a decade now, Tapage has been writing a wide variety of experimental electronic music. Inspired by IDM, noise, ambient, and Post-Rock and Avant-Garde composers, Tapage continues with his vision to merge complicated, harsh rhythms with dream-like atmospheres to create a unique dynamic soundscape.

Wrap Arts Centre is both a production space, a venue and a constantly evolving concept for artistic empowerment and interdisciplinary collaboration. The space is located at Møllendalsveien 58 in Bergen, where it has been based since 2009 (previously Ibsensgate 31 since 2003). The project is developed and run by the artist/curator duo, History Disposal Unit, on freelance terms, of which Leo Preston is part of. Preston is streaming all the concerts on this day.

Graphic design: Blank Blank Studio