Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Last week in the Video Editing room at BEK, Terese Longva edited footage from the 6-hour durational performance Shelter.

At Konsthall C in Stockholm Elin Øyen Vister will be presenting the sound installation “Soundscape Røst – A listening lounge”. She will also be creating a site specific multi-channel sound installation for the basement of Konsthall C with material from Soundscape Røsy archives and sounds from the room itself. The solution for multichannel playback for the basement installation has been developed at BEK.

Lydgalleriet presents Collision Index, a multimedia collective speculating on the sound of mechanics, meaning, language and visuality. An arsenal of smaller machines and sculptural objects interacts aurally and physically. Sometimes controlled, sometimes randomly, a hybrid of installation, concert, theater and text.

Easter is coming up, and things has been cooking at BEK . Following projects are being developed at BEKs studios at the moment.

Easter is coming up, and things has been cooking at BEK . Following projects are being developed at BEKs studios at the moment.

Tuesday 19th of March Jazz Improv band Bly de Blyant will celebrate the release of their album “ABC” with a concert at Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, teaming up with improv visualist Marieke Verbiesen during the evening “Playdate”

The two artists behind The Sun-project will come to BEK and give an artist talk/presentation of the project. BEK will serve a basic and tasteful lunch.
The SUN is a glowing light sculpture, 3 m in diameter, that shifts between a wide range of warm colors.

What happens when sound is being absorbed rather than reflected? How do we subconciously use hearing to navigate space. Experience variations from absolute, pressing silence to illusions of soundcapes in one of the most fascinating rooms to be found in Bergen.

The sound installation “Lontano” lasts about half an hour and can be experienced during the Borealis Festival – from 6 to 10 March – every hour between 12 and 16. There is very limited space, so sign up in advance.

On the first of March, Espen Sommers Eide’s project Dead Language Poetry is opening in NO.5 at Bergen Kunsthall. This winter, Espen has used BEKs project room to develop, build and test a sample of self-made instruments, or “Philosophical Instruments” as he calls them. These will constitute the main component of the exhibition, and relate to different aspects of language and language’s transience.

A small team has been formed to make an outdoor sound sculpture. The working title of the project is “Archangelica”. The creation of the sounds will be based on rain hitting the metal surface of the sculpture. A workshop took place in Fitjar on the 25th and the 26th of January.