The exhibition Cataract by Vilde Salhus Røed at Visningsrommet USF revolves around some inherited negative roll films that once were exposed, but have been sitting undeveloped in the cartridges for decades. The title piece Cataract was developed at BEK earlier this winter during a work residency, and it is BEK’s equipment that is used in the playback of this sound…
What is an album? What can an album made for a building be? The Waves aims to rethink the album format of an era where the album is declared dead repeatedly and the music must be created for an audience with attention for no more than 35 minutes of focused listening. The difference between a “recording” and a live experience…
In this Verktøykassen we will be looking into video synchronization; when two or more videos are playing synchronously on separate screens or projectors. Course leader Stian Remvik will present various methods with different software and hardware, and look closer at the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.
In the period of March 18th – April 5th, Anne Marthe Dyvi will be in BEK’s video studio where she will mainly work on the video This Thing about Time (work title). The project will be shown at Galleri Langegården in 2020, in dialogue with Trudi Jaeger’s artistic practice and Langegården as a historical place. This Thing about Time has the ambition to…
After releasing two EP’s, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik, aka Niilas, has started to work on his first album. Niilas will continue this work in BEK’s sound studio March 18 – 24th, where he mainly will do the last compositions, make selections and create transitions between the songs. The album will be made as a continuous listening experience.
Åse Løvgren, Stine Gonsholt and Alexander Rishaug will be working at BEK March 11th – 16th. They will add sound to their video project, and do sound- and image editing. Also, they will record voice over.
If you want to create something interactive for a screen (TV, computer screen, mobile, tray, VR), Unity is a good option. Inputs can be game controllers, keyboard and mouse, motion sensors, etc.
Vilde Salhus Røed is on a work residency at BEK February 27th – March 2nd together with sound designer Rikard Strømsodd. They are developing a new sound work, and will test out solutions for how the sound images can surround the viewer in the exhibition space.
In the period of March 4 -12th, Siri Ingul, Kristian Berg-Jåtten and Arthur Hureau will be working in BEK’s sound studio to develop an auditory interpretation of the text Lenis plassar (Leni’s places) by Øivind Rimbereid. The sound topography they work on will be performed live, and will be an interdisciplinary artistic meeting between Norwegian contemporary lyric poetry and French electronic music.
Maia Urstad will be at BEK for a work residency in the period of February 12 – 20th to develop the soundscape for her installation Murmur for Borderline festival at Onassis Cultural Centre (OCC) in Athens in the beginning of April this year, curated by Michalis Moscoutis.