Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

Boom…stroke…aaaaeeeehhhh…swing…crash…push…beeep! We struggle to put sonic interactions into words – and that is why an exhibition with real examples of sonic interaction design is the best way to experience this new field of research. It allows you to get your hands – and ears – on interactive works that showcase how sound can facilitate interaction in product design, mobile media, communicating scientific data, interactive art, and more.

Oslo University College (OUC) has taken the initiative to establish a Nordic journal for research on and in the arts. Work on the magazine kicks off with a two-day seminar where the journal profile will be discussed. Trond Lossius at BEK will join the editorial board.

Trond Lossius participates at a GDIF SpatDIF meeting at Ircam. The goal of the meeting is to advance on the GDIF-Gesture Description Interchange Format and SpatDIF-Spatial sound Description Interchange Format, discussing current issues and choices made by the different research groups working with gesture or spatialization data, and decide on further collaborative actions.

September 2-5 2007 composers and researchers from Norway, France and Canada gather for a workshop on spatialisation, development and implementation of SpatDIF, and development of support for spatialisation in the Jamoma environment.

Marìa Andueza Olmedo is writhing a PhD thesis about Sound Art called “Urban Site-Specific Sound Installations”. Thanks to a grant of the NILS mobility project for researchers and artists, she will move from Madrid to Bergen for 3 months, to continue her research at BEK and at the National Academy of the Arts.

Trond Lossius will participate in the workshop Sketching Sonic Interaction Design at Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. The workshop is followed by meetings related to the COST–SID research project on Sonic Interaction Design.