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.

Edgelands (2019)Trond LossiusElectroacoustic composition (3rd order Ambisonic) for multichannel loudspeaker array Trond Lossius · Edgelands (binaural headphone version) Edgelands starts from a series of field recordings from the suburbs and fringes of the city. These zones are critical as urban infrastructures, residential areas and for transport and industry. Still, they come across as bland, banal, and anonymous, haphazardly developed and…

During this year’s Ekko Festival, Ekko and BEK together present a live, film and exhibition program. The festival runs from October to November, and a more performances will be released soon. Go to the Ekko Festival page for full programme.

Welcome to a concert with Lux Passerine (Craig Wells, Omar Johnsen and Stian Remvik) – live streamed directly to you wherever you are; in the living room, on the beach or by the Sankthans bonfire! The concert starts on Tuesday 23rd June at 22:00, but the live-stream will be running from around 21:30

BEK has been diving into the archive and is proud to present this summer’s travel radio! Trollofon radio is a stream of material from the music festival Trollofon and the associated internet radio Pilota.fm from 2001–2006; an eclectic mix of concert recordings, interviews and sound collages. In connection with the series Så jævla sanntid (So damn real-time), Trollofon radio will be streaming…

In 2020, BEK is celebrating its 20 year anniversary and throughout the year we will present a number of different projects – both new artistic projects and a selection from our archive. First up is “Så jævla sanntid” (“So damn real-time”) 2020 – a series where we explore various digital formats and show them online. In the coming months, we…

ToBe Continued… encompasses a 24h long sound marathon, during which artists and musicians from many different parts of the world will each play a half hour set that will be broadcasted through Stazione Di Topolo’s website. Amongst the artists playing this year is Espen Sommer Eide. ToBe Continued… aims to raise awareness for the World Tuberculosis Day and create links…

Between April 23rd – May 10th, BEK will present a selection of projects reflecting on the technological challenges facing our current and future cities. The projects take a range of temporal and spatial formats, including single performances, workshops, an exhibition, a sound app and a video programme on loop.

We round off BEK’s Opening Week 2020 with concerts by Niklas Adam, John Brennan and Tolga Balci, before DJ Tolga Balci takes over! The concert night is free and open to everyone. The doors open at 19.00. We hope to see many of you there!

When BEK opened its newly renovated premises in 2019, we did so with a number of events during the opening weeks. We think this was so fun that we are happy to open 2020 with a new opening week! This year we will be inviting you again to a series of presentations, workshops and concerts January 20 – 28! All…