BEK assists the composer Knut Vaage in the development of the opera “Khairos”. The opera is comissioned by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and is planned to be premiered in 2012.

Thuesday 28. September – Friday 1. Octobre BEK invites musicians, programmers and composers to a four-days workshop focusing on the software MODALITY. It’s free to attend, but you have to cover your own travel and stay.

BEK will coproduce an experimental animated videoclip by Marieke Verbiesen that combines various forms of animation.

BEK has commisioned a music piece from american composer and musician Jeff Carey. This multichannel work is beeing developed in our production studio this summer. Later in September and Octobre Jeff will be back for more composing, more software writing, and in charge of Dipole, two main workshops at BEK this fall.

Jeremy Welsh and Trond Lossius is participating at the
6th International Conference on Small Island Cultures
Guernsey, June 22 — 25 (2010).

They will be presenting Ghost Architecture, an audio-visual performance based on material recorded around the sites of 2nd. world war German fortifications on islands off the west coast of Norway, near Bergen.

The paper Unruhige Räume – Spatial Electroacoustic Composition Through a Collaborative Artistic Research Process by Pascal Baltazar (GMEA, Fr) and Bjørnar Habbestad (BEK, No) is presented at the International Computer Music Conference ICMC 2010 in New York.

The paper can be downloaded here.

The South African artist James Webb has started his residency period at AiR Bergen. His stay also is connected to an exhibition at Galleri 3,14, where his sound installation “Prayer” will be one of the art works shown.

Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers. The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset. Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motiontracking are used to simulate a real life filmset where visitors play the mainrole.

The composition Unruhige Räume by Bjørnar Habbestad/ Pascal Baltazar will be part of Journees Electriques in Albi. This is a joint commission by BEK and GMEA.

Elektromagnetic Fountain is one of two art works in an exhibition at Norsk Telemuseum dealing with the invisible electromagnetic radiation surrounding us, generated by numerous electric devices and installations. The work vizualizes the surrounding electromagnetic fields and invites reflections on the nature of this invisible landscape.

BEK is one of several nodes of the PNEK network that have been assisting Amanda Steggell in the development of the work.