BEK Opening Week 2026 Workshop: Intermedia Time and Sensory Assemblages
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Three-day workshop exploring Sensory Percussion led by artist and composer Cameron Graham.
Tuesday 17 to Friday 20 February
BEK, C. Sundts gate 55, floor 9
10:30-16:00
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This practice-led workshop invites participants to explore the infrastructures of temporal experience, rhythm, embodiment, and intermedia dream logic through interactive media. Using the Sensory Percussion drumkit as both interface and conceptual anchor, participants will explore playful and resistant approaches to temporal expression in performance, working with assemblages of sound, text, film, and sensor-led drumming.
Over three days, participants will develop new audiovisual performance methods using TouchDesigner, Ableton Live, and Sensory Percussion. Together, we will work toward a hybrid performance-installation that rethinks temporality through multimedia composition, gesture, and spatiality.
The workshop is open to musicians, sound designers, performance makers and time-based practitioners of all experience levels.
- Experience: No prior knowledge of TouchDesigner or Sensory Percussion is required.
- Capacity: Group size is limited to 12 people.
Framework:
- Explore time as a technical and historical construct: the clock as a disciplinary system vs. rhythmic expression as embodied, live, and resistant.
- Interrogate how interactive technologies capture and automate time (e.g. looping, on and off-grid MIDI, sampling, signal flow).
- Enact messy, situated, and performed temporalities through live composition, sensory percussion mapping and feedback loops.
- Develop and refine a critical, creative understanding of media temporality using rhythm, voice, and space as primary materials for discussion and creation.
- Reinsert the body as a temporal conductor within audiovisual systems.
Cameron Graham
Cameron is an artist, composer and sensory percussionist whose work unsettles and reorients sonic experience through intermedia, parafiction, and simulation. His work draws on psychoacoustics, audio cultures, and the cultural histories of technology and automation. Projects unfold across installation, electronic music, hybrid performance, and interaction design. Recent work explores the role of the voice in histories of automation, capture, synthesis and AI-mediation––the emergent social and ethical ambiguities that surround contemporary vocal agency and authenticity. Recent and upcoming projects include a concert installation for the London Symphony Orchestra, ‘Abat-Voix’ (BEK Bergen); ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ (Guggenheim NYC,); ‘J’ai Attrapé’ (Le Lieu Unique); ‘fake & extinct’, made in collaboration with artist Klara Kofen (Centrale Fies). His concert music has been commissioned by orchestras and ensembles globally.
Awards include a British Council Grant for his solo exhibition ‘Contact Results in Contagion’ (Ground Solyanka), the Styria Artist Fellowship and multiple PRS for music awards. His electronic music is released on the Phantom Limb label, with a forthcoming album in 2026-27. Alongside his art, music and research, he lectures and supervises at the University of Surrey and City St. George’s University, and is a senior lecturer in music and media at Richmond Upon Thames College London. He is one half of the band ‘phorne’ with Klara Kofen.
ACCESSIBILITY
BEK is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. BEK is situated on the 9th floor, with access through a small three person elevator, or a large industrial elevator and a staircase. There are 17 steps between the 8th floor elevator and the 9th floor. Our space has all gender toilet facilities, but not an universal, accessible toilet. Service dogs are welcome. We also provide the option of a quiet room.
Please send us an email at bek@bek.no if you would like to know anything more, have any questions and we’ll do our best to facilitate your needs.
Images: 1) Design av Blank Blank Studios 2-3) Photos: Cameron Graham 4) Photo: Guggenheim Museum, New York