Bjørnar Habbestad and Jeff Carey collaborates on development of software for RESPIRATOR – an art-based research project initiated by Bjørnar Habbestad.
Jeff Carey will also be giving a concert at Lydgalleriet Friday June 19 at 2100.
The work is based on recordings of the local Suldal dialect and functions as a sonic post card. The semantic meaning becomes subordinate to the sounding qualities of the words and dialect.
BEK assists the composer Knut Vaage in the development of the opera “Khairos”. The opera is comissioned by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and is planned to be premiered in 2012. Vaage’s previous opera “Veslefrikk”, where BEK also contributed, won the ARTE audience award for best production at Armel Opera Competition and Festival in Hungary.
BEK assists the composer Knut Vaage in the development of the opera “Veslefrikk”, commissioned by Den Nye Opera. Veslefrikk will be premiered Friday 29. October at Den Nationale Scene, Småscenen.
Thorolf Thuestad from BEK collaborates with the composer on programming and sound design for the opera project.
Über Tiere – Text: Elfride Jelinek
Passacaglia – Text: Tore Vagn Lid
BEK supports the development of the latest production by Transitteatret Bergen. The play premiered as part of Bergen International Festival 2009.
The Golden Serenades will perform a concert version of their sound installation at Henie Onstad arts center. The installation was commisioned by BEK and shown at Lydgalleriet in 2008.
Trond Lossius will be participating in a workshop at the University of York. The workshop is part of the European research project COST Action on Sonic Interaction Design.
The Measures Taken, written in 1930, is one of modern music theater’s most daring aesthetical and political experiments.
Moving Image – cultural celebration versus cultural assimilation
This is a one-year project between four media art organisations in the UK, Latvia, Bulgaria and Norway and facilitates the movement and exchange of artists and media art in four very different European countries. ‘At Home in Europe’ is about the production and distribution of artworks using digital media and promoting the co-operation and professional development between the partner organisations.
The first solo exhibition of Øyvind Mellbye demonstrates a true enthusiasm for and critical examination of technology.