Sound artist and pioneer Maia Urstad today receives Rune Brynestad’s one-year memorial grant – Norway’s most finest and largest artist grant. BEK congratulates Maia with the award, and is very proud that she is an important and regular contributor to us at BEK. Maia means a lot to the field of sound and electronic art, and we are so happy…
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.
BEK’s advisor in art and technology, Espen Sommer Eide, is in Lofoten to attend the Lofoten Sound Art Symposium. In a very interesting program and not least as part of a diverse bouquet of sound artists, he will perform his project Wind speaker / Language Memory. For this performance, Espen Sommer Eide has stored all the words of the threatened…