Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

During her work residency at BEK, singer and composer Hilde Annine Hasselberg will prepare audio material for the project Et lite barn (A Little Child); a concert that draws parallels between the Christmas gospel and the current refugee crisis. The sound material will mainly be developed in Ableton Live with the use of natural sounds related to the story being told in the work. During the concert, this sound material will function both as an audible backdrop and as an instrument that Hasselberg can use live on stage.

In the former textile mill Salhus Tricotagefabrik there are heavy and large machines, but also tiny and fragile ones. Retro high-tech in cassette format with programming for automated knitting machines. Old technology meets new technology through a sonographic compositional work by Else Olsen S., as the sounds from the machines will be the orchestra and material in the work, which will be…

Inspired by the novel The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, Espen Sommer Eide makes an eponymous spatial music album for Marres. During the exhibtion, the album will ‘live’ inside the house as well as launched on vinyl at the opening on November 15th. In the development of both sound compositions, the new instruments and the speaker technologies used in the project,…

“A Musical Love Letter” is a combined music and video work where a letter is being created; both musically performed by oboe, clarinet, saxophone and percussion, and as a video where the letter slowly emerges as a picture. The music closely follows the gestures of the fountain pen as it moves on the paper. At BEK, Rebecka Ahvenniemi will pre-film video,…

Espen Sommer Eide, adviser in art and technology at BEK, has written the chapter Exercises in Non-Human Listening in this new book from Shelter Press. Sommer Eide examines possible connections between music and nature in the text, as well as trying to find inspiration in sensory biology in animals. The book is out March 7th, and is soon to be found in…

A brand new version of music app BITWaves will be launched on Saturday 24th February. BITWaves2 has been designed and programmed by Stian Remvik at BEK. The app was commissioned by BIT20 Ensemble for their composition project Let’s Compose! The launch event will take place at Bergen Public Library, where Remvik will demonstrate the app with BIT20 Ensemble’s Ole André Farstad. The audience…

Marieke Verbiesen will present her installation Mayhem Machine during the ADE Sound Lab in Amsterdam. In a QA she will present her works and the technology she develops.   About Mayhem Machine “Mayhem Machine is an interactive instrument that produces synchronised sound, light and animation compositions, controlled by the audience via a custommade interface. The installation features instruments that can…

Asbjørn Blokkum Flø is currently working on a new BEK-commissioned music piece. He describes his work as follows: -Analogique IX is a 60 minute long electronic music piece where I try to get back to the electronic music’s musical core through a limitation in materials and methods. In connection with this work I will investigate new artistic concepts and compositional techniques._