Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

On a nationwide cinema tour with the Norwegian silent movie classic “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (1926), Ugress, Krakow, 9 grader nord, Nasra Ali Omar and Annlaug Børsheim aim to redefine romantic nationalism: What does being “Norwegian” mean in 2020? This will be a grand new musical work, performed by a superband from Western Norway, commissioned by Cinemateket USF, that premieres at BIFF and Vill Vill Vest in…

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…

This workshop will demonstrate how performed spatialisation of stereo sources, over a moderately sized loudspeaker array, can create a dynamic, immediate, versatile and immersive 3-D sound experience, enhancing the music for a concert audience. The evening concert is open for the audience, and will feature a showcase of works from Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett, as well as extracts from the…

During the week of June 10 – 16th, it is time for another Future DiverCities LAB at BEK! We will use last year’s seminar Survival Kit for the Age of Technology as our point of departure, and have invited a number of artists, creatives and experts to co-create a Survival Kit for Age of Technology – in the form of a video book. The result will be released in a…

By invitation from Bergen Domkor and BEK, the young Bergen-based artist Andrea Urstad Toft has made two new video works that will be projected directly on the brick walls of Bergen domkirke during the choir’s Bergen International Festival concert on May 29th. After a 3-week work residency in BEK’s video studio, the process manifests in sensitive pictures and animations that…

A selection of local and international sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will be built around a multi-mono wall of speakers. Some acts will be performed live and some will be per-composed and playback.

Welcome to the performance of Lenis plassar – an auditory interpretation of Øivind Rimbereid’s poem, read by Siri Ingul and Kristian Berg-Jåtten with music by Arthur Hureau.

Do you remember the last time you heard a new musical genre for the first time, a totally new sound universe, or a surprising combination of sounds that you thought would never work together? We want to cultivate that moment with BEK Studio Sessions. Wednesday April 24th Adam Parkinson and Tine Surel Lange presented the results of their collaboration during…

This Verktøykassen will be about LED lights and Arduino. Connecting one LED light to an Arduino is not very difficult, but what if you want to connect to 50 lights or LED strips? We will look at what type of Arduino accessories, how much power is needed and how to connect everything to make this happen.

A selection of sound artists, musicians and composers will each compose or improvise a short format multi-channel piece for this event. In order to draw or introduce the audience into diversified acousmatic experiences, this event will present traditional analogue diffusion style with different speakers non-symmetrically spread in the room. Some acts will be performed live and some will be pre-composed…