Composer Knut Vaage and librettist Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen’s recently written work Khairos is a modern on & offshore opera about a man with a hyper-sensitivity to sound.
Thorolf Thuestad makes the sound design, and a lot of the sound work is done in BEK’s studio.
The theater production Urmakarens hjarte (The Heart of the Watchmaker) is an adventurous thriller for youngsters inspired by Norwegian folk mythology and modern fantasy literature.
Trond Lossius from BEK has contributed to the project thorugh the development of a custom 16-channel live audio spatialisation system, utilizing Jamoma.
The last part of the celebration of Håkonshallens 750th anniversary starts Friday the 2nd of December. Video art on the old brick facade of Håkonshallen, presented by BEK.
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Thursday 20 October Claudio Forlini presents his new short film Vampyr, and plays drone-progressions on his purpose-built sound machine _Entropia. Both projects are co-produced by BEK and realized in our studio- and project spaces.
We wish to thank everyone that have been using BEK so far this year for interesting tasks, fruitful conversations and challenging ideas.
The 11th of June BEK arrange the second edition of the Rad series in Våge, Kvinnherad. The event takes place in the composer Knut Vaage´s cabin. The cabin is a place where Knut Vaage compose his music, and have space for thought. In Rad#2 we have invited a selection of musicians/artists to improvise together, present a reading of Ragnvald Vaages poetry and serve food.
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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.
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.