Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

This session will be divided into two parts. First we will listen to some examples of early electronic and experimental sound and music, and next we will look into the World Soundscape Project, initiated by R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the early 70s, providing a critical documentation and examination of the urban and rural soundscapes surrounding us.

“Listening to Donald Judd” is a collaboration between BEK and The Bergen National Academy of the Arts.

POW Ensemble played the Borealisfestival 2009 with electronic tap dancing. Now they are back in Bergen, this time with an electronic dissection of the guitar. In addition to the Landmark concert on Sunday, they will present their work and techniques at BEK on Monday 26. October

Michelle Teran (Canada), nominated for a “Transmediale 2010 Award”, will do a selfpresentation at HKS, as part of BEKs ongoing presentation series.

BEK introduce a new regular activity labeled Listening to Donald Judd… in collaboration with Bergen National Academy of the Arts. At regular intervals we will meet to listen to and discuss selected works of contemporary music and sound art, accompanied by relevant literature.

The first session will be focusing on futurism, and in particular the manifesto The Art of Noise, written by Luigo Russolo in 1913.

Peter Sinclair is an English sound artist living in Marseille, France. At Kunstakademiet, Bergen, he will talk about his own artistic works, the sound lab Locus Sonus, and give a short introduction to the PhD-program where he participates.

The artistic work of Bjørnar Habbestad tends to cross the borders between music interpretation and improvisation, conceptual sound art and development of music technology. Drawing on concrete sound experiences from a number of traditions and perspectives he aims at investigating tangential points between acoustic performance practise and digital processing.

Trond Lossius gives an introduction to electronic music for students of contemporary music at The Grieg Academy. The lecture will provide an overview of the history of electronic music, important composers, works, schools and artistic practices.

British artist and film maker Terry Flaxton is our guest for the first artist talk this autumn.

Terry Flaxton is a senior research fellow in HD Video Production at the University of Bristol, U.K. Terry Flaxton has been involved in the UK video art and indepent film milieu since the late seveties and has worked with a broad range of productions including documentaries, video installations and television productions, including one of the first tv-series on video art in the UK, made in 1985.