This week the artist duo Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi is working in our video studio. Towards 2021 they will have several work residencies at BEK to develop and realise Are You Ready? – a hybrid tv series. During this first residency they will do pre-production, production and post production.
During the residency at BEK, Morten will be working on a new series of sound works titled Phantoms on the threshold of perception. In the sound studio he will develop variations of the compositions to prepare them for both live presentation and installation. There will be open sessions and presentations of the concepts which will be open for public. First presentation will…
What is an album? What can an album made for a building be? The Waves aims to rethink the album format of an era where the album is declared dead repeatedly and the music must be created for an audience with attention for no more than 35 minutes of focused listening. The difference between a “recording” and a live experience…
In the period of March 18th – April 5th, Anne Marthe Dyvi will be in BEK’s video studio where she will mainly work on the video This Thing about Time (work title). The project will be shown at Galleri Langegården in 2020, in dialogue with Trudi Jaeger’s artistic practice and Langegården as a historical place. This Thing about Time has the ambition to…
After releasing two EP’s, Peder Niilas Tårnesvik, aka Niilas, has started to work on his first album. Niilas will continue this work in BEK’s sound studio March 18 – 24th, where he mainly will do the last compositions, make selections and create transitions between the songs. The album will be made as a continuous listening experience.
Åse Løvgren, Stine Gonsholt and Alexander Rishaug will be working at BEK March 11th – 16th. They will add sound to their video project, and do sound- and image editing. Also, they will record voice over.
Vilde Salhus Røed is on a work residency at BEK February 27th – March 2nd together with sound designer Rikard Strømsodd. They are developing a new sound work, and will test out solutions for how the sound images can surround the viewer in the exhibition space.
In the period of March 4 -12th, Siri Ingul, Kristian Berg-Jåtten and Arthur Hureau will be working in BEK’s sound studio to develop an auditory interpretation of the text Lenis plassar (Leni’s places) by Øivind Rimbereid. The sound topography they work on will be performed live, and will be an interdisciplinary artistic meeting between Norwegian contemporary lyric poetry and French electronic music.
Brita Urstad Toft is working in BEK’s sound studio during the period of 12 – 21. December, where she will record and produce music under her alias Brita UT.
During the next couple of weeks Terese Stenhjem will be developing her work at BEK. She will work in the project space with video editing, test out green screen technology, and try to integrate her work in a physical space. She aims to find technical solutions for mounting and/or project video work, and explore whether it is possible to make…