Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

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Bjørnar Habbestad (NO) and Pascal Baltazar (FR) have been commissioned to create a piece for flute, interfaces, and live electronics, to be performed by:

• Bjørnar Habbestad : Flute and electronics
• Pascal Baltazar : Gestural electroacoustic instrument
• Benjamin Maumus : Live sound projection

The work will develop through a series of residencies in Bergen and Albi:

• BEK, Bergen, March 21t-25th 2009
• GMEA, Albi, November 9th-13th 2009
• GMEA, Albi, December 7th-11th 2009
• BEK, Bergen, to be scheduled (2010)

Several concerts and presentations are scheduled as part of the process:

• Borealis festival, Bergen, Norway, March 25th 2009 : Initial encounter improvised concert
• Borealis OutHear, King’s place, London, UK, January 25th 2010 :
• Journées Électriques Festival, Albi, France, March 27th, 2010
• International Computer Music Conference, New York, June 2010
• Borealis festival, Bergen, Norway, March 2011 (premiere)

The work is jointly commissioned by BEK and GMEA in collaboration with Borealis festival, with support from the Norwegian Composers Fund, the French State and the Municipality of Bergen.