We will be back from Summer holidays at BEK from August 5th, and will start the season off with Reality-based Audio Workshop at Struer Tracks, book presentation of “Elektrisk lyd i Norge” (“Electric Sound in Norway”) and concert, and a concert with Loud Matter at Østre.
This workshop will demonstrate how performed spatialisation of stereo sources, over a moderately sized loudspeaker array, can create a dynamic, immediate, versatile and immersive 3-D sound experience, enhancing the music for a concert audience. The evening concert is open for the audience, and will feature a showcase of works from Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett, as well as extracts from the…
A selection of local and international sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will be built around a multi-mono wall of speakers. Some acts will be performed live and some will be per-composed and playback.
A selection of sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will present traditional analogue diffusion style with different speakers non-symmetrically spread in the room. Some acts will be performed live and some will be pre-composed…
Borealis World Premiere! Sit back and get comfortable for an audio cinema experience, as BEK’s Reality-based Audio Workshop take you sonically in to Norway’s “Moon Landing”!
The two artists Jiska Huizing and Mathias Loose was part of our Croatian partner Kontejner’s lab from 21st – 31st of January 2019. The lab invited international artists with special focus on performance and media art, and the selection was curated by the partners in Future DiverCities. During a total of 10 days, the artistic team visited Zagreb and Rijeka.
Tapage, aka Tijs Ham, will perform his new audiovisual setup Ecdysis at Landmark on the 5th of May. He has been working on this project during the period when the MOD/ALL workshops was happening at BEK.
Freja Bäckman’s I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer is a concert in the forms of a performance and an installation, that will take place at District Berlin April 30th. Bäckman was artist in residency at USF Verftet earlier this year, and was working on this project during her stay. BEK has been supporting the development of…
The legendary composer, writer and data programmer Curtis Roads has been one of the leading characters within computer music since the 70’s. He is an expert in granular synthesis, and has written several works of reference about sound and composition. This night Curtis Roads will perform his own works at Østre. The concert is organized in collaboration between Lydgalleriet, BEK,…
For the one-day mini-festival GJENLYD the contemporary music scene in Bergen will be celebrating local hero Morten Eide Pedersen, new music pioneer Pierre Boulez and compositional contortionist Ruben Sverre Gjertsen – whose music is famously impossible to play. Among other, you can experience Trond Lossius’ installation where he uses material that the composer, teacher and driving force in Bergen contemporary…