Pilota & BEK presents: SALMONSENS ARKIVSIRKUS
The arkivsirkus is back! This time Møllerhaug & Eide will do live archiving to the songs of Attila Csihar and Jaap Blonk. Also Karen Skogs Orkester will play their beautiful instruments.
The arkivsirkus is back! This time Møllerhaug & Eide will do live archiving to the songs of Attila Csihar and Jaap Blonk. Also Karen Skogs Orkester will play their beautiful instruments.
Victoria Johnson, in her artistic research fellowship project “Electric Violin in Digital Space”, immerses herself in the development of new music and improvisations on electric violin, extending the concert format and exploring interaction with digital audio processing and sensor technology.
What happens to a musician’s brain when under duress? For this event, Le Jury will improvise non-stop for 12 hours, during which the activity of their brains will be monitored by researchers from Bergen University. This data will be displayed to the public, as well as being used by electronic media artist Trond Lossius to create a live visual display.
First day of the Borealis festival Habbestad, Baltazar & Maumus presents: Unruhige Räume – Hörspiel for historic building, audience, speakers, microphones and three electroacoustic performers.
March 11th BEK will present an evening event at gallery KNIPSU in Bergen. The first edition of Rad is a presentation, installation, lecture and concert. Participants are Ellen Røed, Espen Sommer Eide, Maia Urstad, Steinar Bøyum, Anne Marthe Dyvi, Hans Knut Sveen and Knipsu Soundsystem.
‘Dogs, cats – and the big cats too – cows, horses, asses, foxes, frogs and even birds. They all use it.’
Fig. is visual artist Claire Zakiewicz, computer-musician Thorolf Thuestad and vocalist Alwynne Pritchard. Developed in cooperation with BEK.
Thorolf Thuestad from BEK runs the electronic processing when the BIT20 ensemble invites to Arne Norheim’s memorial concert in Håkonshallen the 21st of November. The cooperation between Thorolf Thuestad and BIT20 is a sequel from a larger Nordheim project that BEK was a part of in 2006.
Saturday and Sunday BEK will open it’s doors to show a little bit of what we’ve been up to lately. All project rooms will be filled with sound, video and electronics that has been developed at BEK.
If you walk your way to the top floor at C. Sundtsgt. 55, you will be rewarded with an extra treat!!!
Phonophani, a.k.a. Espen Sommer Eide, is performing at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, the 20th of October, as part of the EKKO festival. His new CD Kreken is now released on Rune Grammofon and has received good reviews. So prepear yourself for a glorious EKKO-evening together with Phonophani, Jeff Carey and Tim Hecker.
Jeff Carey is back in Bergen, and here at BEK he will hold a users workshop 3 – 4 September, focusing on the new software Modality.
Some of his works will also be presented at Landmark Wednesday 8, when Utmark kicks off.