Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

You’re warmly invited to a night of sound and BBQ on Friday, June 20. This year, we have something extra special to celebrate: BEK is turning 25, and we’re marking the occasion with a festive anniversary celebration, live music featuring a line-up of our current residents at BEK.

Friday, June 20. 18:00–23:00
BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, floor 9.
Free entry

We’ll kick off the afternoon with grilling and long communal tables where we gather for food and conversation. As the evening unfolds, there will be exciting presentations and performances by artists currently in residency at BEK, and perhaps even a few surprises. The Norwegian Society of Composers will be joining us to present the Work of the Year 2024 award to one of the three prize recipients. Jury leader Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje will read the jury’s statement and present the award to Mariam Gviniashvili for her work Ruins.

Artistic program

Workshop presentation

Artists participating in the workshop Spatial Audio – Techniques, Tools, and Creative Practice led by composer Mariam Gviniashvili will present their work. The workshop explored spatial audio through both theory and practice. Gviniashvili introduced participants to spatial listening, sound perception, and the creative possibilities of Ambisonics.

Daiyen Jone Castro and Knut Jonas Sellevold

The duo are currently working in BEKs project space and will present their new project to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest. They explores improvised, imaginary landscapes in the hinterland between sound, music and nature.

Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe is currently working in BEKs electronics lab and will present some of his current work spanning ambient, dark ambient, experimental, and rhythmic noise.

Cameron Graham with Klara Kofen

Cameron Graham is currently working in BEKs sound studio. For his live set, he will be showing part of the development of an intermedia performance system where sensory percussion triggers live-generated text, vocal synthesis, and simulated worlds between TouchDesigner and the Unreal engine. The work weaves projection, live drumming and live vocal performance into a hazy, post-digital exploration of the lossy artifactual nature of language and vocal sentiment. Dreaming through manipulated speech and algorithmic text, it traces histories of vocal synthesis—from human capture to digital fragmentation—against a sonic collage of hardcore, gabber, IDM, shoegaze, and baroque. Graham will be joined by Klara Kofen this evening.

We’ll provide hot BBQs, birthday cake, salads, and some snacks. Feel free to bring something you’d like to grill, your beverage of choice, and maybe something that puts you in the perfect summer mood.

This event is free and open to all. It’s a great opportunity to explore BEK, meet both new and familiar faces, and experience the community around us.

We look forward to welcoming you on the 9th floor at C. Sundts gate 55!

Contributing Artists

Cameron Graham

Cameron is an artist, musician, sensory percussion drummer and educator, interested in the capacity of intermedia performance and technological experimentation to structure, reorient and proliferate sonic and musical experience. His work unfolds between cross-genre sound and performance, installation, live game-engine architectures and sound sculpture. Sound, music and performance works have been commissioned and shown at the Guggenheim Museum New York, Medialab Matadero, FACT Liverpool and Østre Bergen amongst others. His electronic music is released on the Brighton-based Phantom Limb label, with two forthcoming albums in 2026. Writings on music and sound have been published by the Cambridge University Press, Inky Needles Journal and Documents Paris.

He holds teaching positions at City University London and the University of Surrey, having held professorial positions at Ithaca College and Dulwich College. Concert and multimedia music works have been commissioned by institutions, ensembles and orchestras worldwide. His AHRC funded PhD explored staging, metaphorising and worlding the creative process through intermedia and transmedia.

Klara Kofen

Klara is an artist, dramaturg and writer, whose work is concerned with histories, speculative, counterfactual, real and imagined and the way technological interfaces shape our relation to time and affect. She is the artistic director of Waste Paper Opera and occasionally investigates international trade shows.

to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest

to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest is a new project from Daiyen Jone Castro and Knut Jonas Sellevold. The duo explores improvised, imaginary landscapes in the hinterland between sound, music and nature. The project came about around a shared interest in natural soundscapes, field recordings, and the fourth world music of artists such as Jon Hassell and Roberto Musci. The name is more than a band name, and points towards an open concept – a continuous and open process where nature, people and music find themselves in a constant, improvised interaction. The duo uses field recordings that are looped and combined with electronic manipulation of live elements such as flute, voice and percussion. 

The duo released their first cassette on Bergen-based label Vibrant Matter in May 2025, with a follow-up release planned in fall 2025 on Portuguese label Discrepant. 

Mariam Gviniashvili

Mariam Gviniashvili is a composer working at the intersection of electroacoustic and instrumental music, 3D sound and multimedia performance. Her work explores the physical and emotional dimensions of sound and space, and the integration of visuals and live performance. 

Originally from Georgia, Gviniashvili’s musical journey began in early childhood with singing and piano, eventually leading her to composition studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music. This diverse background informs her artistic themes, ranging from the distractions of online meetings in DAYDREAMING (2022), to the “strange cosmic ballet” (5 against 4) of the audiovisual piece REVELATION (2021), and DECONSTRUCTION (2020), a work reflecting on viral spread patterns, which earned an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica.

Gviniashvili’s work has been presented at festivals, venues and radio broadcasts worldwide, including INA GRM, Center for Art and Media | ZKM, Ars Electronica, EMPAC, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, BEAST FEaST, Virginia Tech, Transitions at CCRMA, MA/IN, ICMC, Mixtur Festival, Klingt Gut, In Situ Festival, Heroines of Sound, Ultima Festival and BBC Radio.

Mohammed Rowe

With a wide-ranging ear and a deep appreciation for diverse sonic landscapes, Mohammed Rowe’s work spans ambient, dark ambient, experimental, and rhythmic noise. He explores the intersection of sound, technology, and sensory engagement, crafting immersive experiences that connect people and transform spaces. From interactive installations to film, theater, and Performance, his projects bring together cross-disciplinary collaboration to create participatory soundscapes. Drawing on urban rhythms, found sounds, and textured atmospheres, he invites audiences into multisensory experiences that merge physical and digital realms, fostering curiosity and shared understanding across diverse communities. His goal is to provoke reflection on our relationship with sound, offering innovative experiences that resonate in a rapidly evolving world.

Accessibility

BEK’s space unfortunately is not wheelchair accessible. Please send us an email at bek@bek.no if you’re using a wheelchair, and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs. Our space has all gender toilet facilities. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.

Images: 1-2) Summer 2023. Photo: BEK 3) to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest. Photo: Jin Kamaza 4) Cameron Graham. Photo: Carmen Gray 5) Mohammed Rowe. Photo: Leonidas Michelopoulos 6)Photo: Mariam Gviniashvili