Carlos Guedes, Fabien Gouyon and Georges Sioros participated in the Workshop on “Musical Rhythm: Cross-Disciplinary and Multi-Cultural Perspectives“, organised by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in Abu Dhabi between March 18-23, 2013.

At Konsthall C in Stockholm Elin Øyen Vister will be presenting the sound installation “Soundscape Røst – A listening lounge”. She will also be creating a site specific multi-channel sound installation for the basement of Konsthall C with material from Soundscape Røsy archives and sounds from the room itself. The solution for multichannel playback for the basement installation has been developed at BEK.

Soundscape Røst är ett pågående arbete som undersöker och dokumenterar ljudlandskap i förändring, ytterst på Nordnorska Lofoten, med fokus på det utrotningshotade fågelbeståndet samt på kulturlandskapet längst kusten.

Elin Øyen Vister bedriver sedan 2010 ljudforskning genom ljudupptagningar av pelagiska havsfåglar, i kommunen Røst (Kårøya, Vedøy, Trenyken och Hernyken), för att förstå och synliggöra varför antalet havsfåglar i detta område minskar.

Alla fåglar som Øyen Vister tar utgångspunkt i är idag med bland de rödlistade arter som den norska artdatabanken registrerat (www.artsportalen.artsdatabanken.no).

Under de tre senaste åren har hon vistats i detta området och upplevt hur ljudmiljön förändrats. Bestånden av arten tretåig mås (Krykkje) har t ex minskat så kraftigt på Vedøy, att bara några få tusen par återstår. Sillgrisslan (Lomvi) är totalt utrotad från ön. Som jämförelse kan nämnas att Røst på 1980-talet hade världens största bestånd av lunnefågel på ca 1,5 miljoner par. Idag finns ca 450 000 par lunnefåglar och inga ungar har kläckts sedan 2006.

Lunnefågeln är i utställningssammanhanget, på Konsthall C, en av stjärnorna på LP skivan Soundscape Røst – Spaces and species Vol 1, från 2012. Den presenteras i den del av utställningen med titeln The Listening Lounge.

The Listening Lounge är ett rum som installerats för koncentrerad lyssning som en medvetandehöjande praktik. Detta förhållningssätt innebär bland annat ett närmande till det som försöker skapa förutsättningar för ett mer aktivt lyssnande i en tid då det audiovisuella bruset blivit en distraherande faktor.

Ett av Elin Øyen Visters mål är att dokumentera den förändrande akustiska ekologin i våra omgivningar. Att via sitt konstnärliga arbete rikta sökarljuset mot lyssning, som en övning i att utveckla empati, kommunikation och medkänsla. Detta förhållningssätt har bland annat inspirerats av kompositören, musikern och filosofen Pauline Oliveros, som etablerade begreppet Deep Listening.

Som del av Soundscape Røst vill Øyen Vister skapa ett större engagemang och en djupare medvetenhet vad gäller frågor som berör den konkret minskande biologiska mångfalden, liksom för de geopolitiska och klimatologiska utmaningar vi står inför, inte bara i den här regionen.

“Politikerna är upptagna av två saker. Olja och fisk. De ser bara på fiskynglen i relation till oljan, inte på havet som ett sammanhängande ekosystem. Detta sker inte bara i Norge, men i hela världen. Forskning på havsfågel är begränsad och det beror på att det är näringslivets intressen som styr forskningen.” (Elin Vister Øyen)

Som en del av utställningen ordnas gemensam lyssningskväll och ljudvandring i Hökarängens omgivning. Inbjudna forskare, aktivister och andra med inblick i förlusten av den biologiska mångfalden när det gäller fåglar, liksom i klimatförändringar, kommer att göra presentationer och bidra med fördjupad insikt.

Mer om Soundscape Røst: http://soundscaperost.com/

Photos by Sigurd Fandango (1 & 4), Carsten Aniksdal (2), Elin Øyen Vister (3) and Havard Ellinsgen (5).

Utställningen genomförs med stöd av OCA 
(Office for Contemporary Art Norway).

Tack till Trond Lossius och BEK (Bergen Elektronisk Kunst)

SOUNDSCAPE RØST – The Listening Lounge kan också ses som en del i, eller som en samtalspart till, den långtidsundersökning, med arbetstiteln Hållbarhet-vad menar vi?, som Konsthall C:s arbetslag har tagit som sin uppgift. En utställning/undersökning, som vecklar ut sig innehållsligt över tid, genom olika former och med hjälp av olika metoder, som sträcker sig fram till December 2014. Det innebär konkret att flera konstnärliga och interdisciplinära samarbeten, produktioner och publika moment, kommer att äga rum.

Time and place:

• Konsthall C, Stockholm - 10/04/2013 to 05/05/2013

Max 6.1 introduced a new feature called Packages, making it easier to distribute 3rd party extensions to Max. In order to cater for Jamoma users eager to use Max 6.1.we have now added a hand-crafted package for Jamoma 0.5.7 to the Jamoma web site.

For further information on this package, please refer to this blog post at the Jamoma web site. Jamoma 0.5.7 will only work with the 32-bit version of Max.

Jamoma is a set of frameworks for real-time media processing and control in Max and other hosting environments. It is developed by an international team of artists, composers, musicians, developers and researchers.

For two years 2012-2014 BEK receives funding towards further developemnt of Jamoma from the Hordaland County Council.

 

Time and place:

• www.jamoma.org - 07/04/2013 to 10/04/2013

The BEK web site just got more interactive: You are now welcome to comment on projects and blog posts, as we have added Disqus plugin to our web site.

Date:  Wed, 04/10/2013 - 5:15pm - 7:00pm Location:  CCRMA Classroom, The Knoll 2nd floor, Rm 217 Event Type:  Colloquium  Today, CCRMA enjoys a literal and figurative embeddedness within Stanford and a reputation as one of the world's premiere computer music research groups. Alas, this was not always the case. This colloquium will present a historic "tour" of CCRMA, tracing its "pre-history" in the music and AI activities at Stanford and Bell Labs, through the financial and personnel crises that challenged its first decade, to the enormous influence that it's had on people and organizations around the world.
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Today is the 8th anniversary of Freesound! Congratulations to the researchers, developers, moderators, donors and users who have been and are part of this project for the success achieved so far.

More Information:  Freesound.org

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We now know the number of applications for enrolment in the first year of undergraduate study for the 2013/2014 academic year. The Faculty of Computer and Information Science was the first choice for 509 secondary school students, which we are very proud of.

ManiFeste-2013, l'académie : master class duo de pianistes et master classes de percussion. Date limite de candidatures : 9 avril

Les master classes d'interprétation associent le répertoire du 20e siècle et la création récente dans une volonté de dépassement des spécialisations historiques. Elles offrent par ailleurs un accès privilégié à quelques œuvres de référence de la musique mixte, où la dimension de la projection sonore fait partie intégrante du dispositif de l'interprétation.

Master class duo de pianistes

Master classes pour duos constitués de pianistes sur du répertoire contemporain pour deux pianos avec les pianistes Jean-François Heisser et Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.Possibilité d'aborder également le répertoire pour deux pianos et percussion.

Master classes de percussion

Parcours n°1Du 12 au 21 juin : master class par Steven Schick & du 17 au 30 juin : atelier In Vivo Danse sur des créations pour danse, percussion avec ou sans électronique, par Samuel Favre.

Parcours n°2Du 12 au 21 juin : master class par Steven Schick & du 26 au 29 juin : master class pour percussionnistes et duo de pianistes, par Jean-Frédéric Heisser & Jean-Frédéric Neuburger.

CANDIDATURES EN LIGNE JUSQU'AU 9 AVRIL : Ulysses Platform.

Series:

• Sonic Interference

Friday, 2013, April 12 - 19:30

STUDIES ON SOUND, VIDEO, LIGHT AND STAGE DESIGN by Daniel Domínguez Teruel

Multimedia studies presentation

12.04.2013 - 19:30h

Sala Polivalent UPF Poblenou
C/ Roc Boronat 138
Barcelona
Free admission  
By means of different studies on sound, video and light Daniel Dominguez Teruel examined different aspects of communication. The stage as a space of possibilities is thereby always the focal point. All studies have the idea in common that we are wrapped in a way by communication as a packing: we are constantly coding and encoding informations of different types. This informations are depending on our culture and social behaves, for instance in language, non verbal communication and art.   This project received a Phonos creation grant.

Concept, music, video, electronics: Daniel Dominguez Teruel

Double bass: Philippe Wozniak   PROGRAM:

STUDY III (2013) silentfilm

SKTHN (2012) after a poem of Sheida Damghani. 4-channel audio and video

STUDY II (2013) contrabass, live-electronics and video

STUDY I (2013) video, stereo audio

STUDY UNTITLED (2012) 6 channel audio

STUDY V (2013) prepared disklavier, live-electronics and video

 

with the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya: Departament de Cultura
Ajuntament de Barcelona: Barcelona Cultura Universitat Pompeu Fabra SGAE Fundación Autor

 

Category:

• Phonos Concerts

On Saturday, 6 April 2013 FRI and FE UL will host the 19th Festival of Innovative Technology, organised by the Technical Culture Association of Slovenia (ZOTKS). In addition to programming competitions for students and future students at 10.00 in P-1 lecture hall, a round table will also take place entitled: How do we reform computer and information science teaching in Slovenia?

Start: 2013-04-14 16:00 End: 2013-04-14 18:00

Tuesday 16 April 2013 CSCA Lecture by professor Larry Parsons (University of Sheffield and Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, Lyon, France) on the Neurobiological Basis of Musical Skills and Dancing. He will present functional neuroimaging data on the brain basis of call/response singing, harmonization, improvisational singing, sight-singing duets, music learning in non-musical adults, and the performance of memorized piano pieces. Also discussed will be the relation between neural systems for melodic and sentential generation, emotional musical experiences, and the brain basis of dancing.

Friday 5 April 2013 SMART Lecture by dr Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths, University of London) on Congenital Amusia with the title: Why do all the songs sound the same?

Open call for an exhibition on synthetic biology in the Ars Electronica Center, in Linz Austria (July to October 2013). Deadline: April 9, 2013 (extended). [+info]

The Reaper DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) program provides JS, a scripting language for creation of audio and midi effects. Recently Trond Lossius has started developing a number of JS plugins for processing of ambisonic signals. Source code for the plugins is available at GitHub.

JS is a scripting language which is compiled on the fly and allows you to modify and/or generate audio and MIDI, as well as draw custom vector based UI and analysis displays. JS effects are simple text files, which when loaded in REAPER become full featured plug-ins.

JS plugins are simple and fast to develop, and so far Trond has made a bunch for processing of ambisonic sound field recordings:

• YAW rotation (around the up axis)
• PITCH rotation (around the right axis)
• ROLL rotation (around the front axis)
• 1st order encoding of mono source
• 1st order encoding of stereo source (treated as two mono sources)
• 1st order super stereo encoding (I still need to apply 90 degree phase offsets to signals in order to complete this one)

The plugins are available as a GitHub repository where you can grab the code/plugins and follow and contribute to further development. The plugins are available for free with a BSD open-source license.

Time and place:

• BEK - 02/04/2013 to 07/04/2013

Yesterday 11 FRI students left for Birmingham as part of the intensive programme EPSIAE – Green information technology. Last week the crew from Kanal A TV channel visited them in the Computer Communications Laboratory and produced an interesting segment on student projects.

Entry Denied is an exhibition and a film program (Exiles), organized by the newly formed artist group Exiles. Their aim is to promote knowledge and discussion about Norwegian and international asylum and refugee policy in the hope of influencing it in a more humane direction. You’ll find Entry Denied at Visningsrommet USF, Cinemateket and Bergen offentlige bibliotek. BEK supports Exiles with equipment, project space, programming and other technical assistance.

Exiles artist group:
Yamile Calderon, Ulla Schildt, Shwan Dler Qaradaki, Samuel Olou, Sam Iravanian, Malin Lennström-Örtwall, Mona Bentzen, Mary Odegaard, Lars Sandås, Sabina Jacobsson, Katharina Barbosa and Beate Pettersen. Everyone has in different ways been working with this theme earlier (including through the Atelier Populaire Oslo’s activities in 2011 and 2012).

Press release
Info about the exhibition
Info about the screening program

Entry Denied (the exhibition):
Place: Visningsrommet USF, 4. – 10. April.
Vernissasje: Thursday 4. April at 19.00
Opening hours: All days from 11.00 – 23.00

Exiles (film screening at Entry Denied):
Place: Cinemateket USF
Times: ® Thur. 4.4 from 21.00 ® Sat. 6.4 and Sun. 7.4 from 12.00 ® Tue. 9.4 and Wed. 10.4 from 19.00.

exiles.no

Time and place:

• Verftet og Bergen off. bibliotek - 04/04/2013 to 10/04/2013

The film Blåtur will premiere 12. April at the Bergen cinema. Audiodesign for the film is done in BEK’s studio by Thorolf Thuestad and Knut Vaage.

Silje skal flytte sammen med kjæresten Kaspar, men er usikker på om han er en som egentlig kommer til å stikke av…

Hun går til eventbyrået “Av en annen verden” og bestiller en event for å teste han. De blir tatt ut til Gusøy, et nedlagt asyl fra tidlig på 1900-tallet. Eventen og det gamle asylet byr på mange overraskelser, ikke alle er like hyggelige.

Original tittel: Blåtur
Regi: Ivar Aase
Skuespillere: Vegar Hoel, Berte Rommetveit, Julie Rusti ,Dan Skjæveland, Marit Sanden, Are Flåøien, Philip Newth
Genre: Thriller
Nasjonalitet: Norge
Språk: Norsk

Egnethet: Ungdom
Begrunnelse: Utrygg stemning og enkelte skremmende scener gjør at filmen får 11-årsgrense.

Time and place:

• Bergen Kino - 12/04/2013 to 14/04/2013

Sourround sound is used for film production, games, electronic music, video and sound installations and in sound design for stage. This workshop provides a practical and creative introduction to the topics for beginners, with a particular emphasis on equipment available at BEK and software developed at BEK.

The workshop will be covering the following topics:

• General introduction to surround sound and spatial hearing
• Uswe of mono and MS (mid-side) shotgun microphone, and conversions bewteen MS and stereo
• Surround recording using the SoundField SPS200 ambisonics microphone and Tascam DR-680 multichannel protable digital recorder
• Pre-processing of recordings made using the SoundField microphone (conversion from A-format to B-format)
• Decoding B-format signals to stereo, binaural, 5.1 surround and more using the Harpex plugin
• Using multichannel sound cards and setting up mutlichannel playback systems
• Work on surround sound in DAW software (Reaper) and video production (Final Cut)
• Upmixing of mono and stereo sources
• Using various spatialisation techniques in Max and Jamoma for varying loudspeaker setups
• Using surround sound in your own artistic and creative projects

The workshop aims at developing practical skills as well as artistic and creative experience. Work on your own creative ideas and projects, with supervision, is an important part of the workshop.

The workshop lasts for five days, runnign from 10:00 to 16:00. Participants are expected to participate for the whole of the week.

The workshop is free, but participants are expected to bring their own laptop, and their own licenses for software they want to use (e.g. Reaper, Final Cut Pro or Max).

Sign up by sending an email to trond.lossius@bek.no, with the following information: Name, contact info (email and cell phone), a brief intro on yourself, your prior experience (if any) with work on sound, why you want to join the workshop and whether there’s anything particular you would want to work on.

Workshop leader is Trond Lossius.

This workshop is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Hordaland County Council and Arts Council Norway.

The workshop is a collaboration with the Re:place artistic research project initiated by Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHIB) in association with Oslo Academy of Art (KHIO) and The Grieg Academy (Griegakademiet).

Time and place:

• BEK - 22/04/2013 to 26/04/2013

Easter is coming up, and things has been cooking at BEK . Following projects are being developed at BEKs studios at the moment.

Amir Ajdinovic is working on a filmproject: My project is an attempt to transform real life into a movie. I’m making a stylized documentary, giving it feature film and music video aesthetics. It’s an exploration of narcissism and art, mostly inspired by social media and DSLR-technology (the possibility to recreate Hollywood-images easily). I imagine the film being about “everything”; non-linear schizo-montage of all the footage I can manage to capture – though since I am closest to myself, the film is probably going to be about me struggling to make a film. In many ways I am trying to make the ultimate meta-film as a manifest of our self-concious and neurotic culture.

Trine Hylander Friis is developing a work on spatialising her soundwork for the masters exhibition at Kunsthallen, opening 12th of April assisted by spatialisation and max/Jamoma expert Trond Lossius.

LEMUR is working on audio and video recording of Critical Band, which was performed under EKKO festival in autumn 2012. BEK has co-produced the development of the project and the ensemble’s work with acoustic analyzes. LEMUR members are Bjørnar Habbestad, Michael Duch, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Lene Grenager.
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Ingvild Hellesøy and Petter Napstad are directors of the project The Invinsible which uses Per Lagerkvists text about existential themes, as a foundation to investigate the process of making a theaterpiece. Central means are the use of video, sounddiary, and invited guests with different backgrounds, from liberating dance to meditation to theaterscience. “The Invisible” will be presentes at the studentheater Immaturus 26th of April.

Time and place:

• BEK - 01/03/2013 to 01/04/2013