Re:place workshop continued

The Re:place production workshop continues. Plans begin to become more concrete and the overall shape of the exhibition has started to emerge. Two more days of intensive work to be done this week, then the next phase will be to make detailed plans and sketches of the exhibition layout, ready for the install in September.

Workshop, July 2013

From the first days of the workshop in the project room at KHIB, Bergen, 1 - 5 July, with Synne Bull, Dragan Miletic, Signe Lidén, Trond Lossius, Morten Eide Pedersen and Jeremy Welsh. Testing out projections and multi-channel sound to be used in the forthcoming exhibition at Kino Kino, Sandnes, opening September 13th.

Starting the second day with coffee outside Dromedar. A brief glimpse of summer.

Skyvelære - opening

The exhibition "Skyvelære" by Ellen Røed opened at Stiftelsen 3,14 Thursday last week, and will be running until 11.08.2013. Here are some photos by Anne Matrthe Dyvi from the opening.

Ellen provides a detailed reflection on her artistic research project in a conversation with Cecilia Gelin.

Skyvelære - Ellen Røed at Galleri 3,14

Bergen Academy of Arts and Design wishes you welcome to the opening of

Skyvelære

- an exhibition by our research fellow Ellen Røed at Galleri 3,14 in Bergen.

Composed of the words sliding and knowing, the Norwegian term Skyvelære means caliper, a device for measuring distance. In the exhibition Skyvelære Ellen Røed is reflecting on devices and procedures that are used in video art and in the natural sciences. She considers various relationships involved in creating representations; field trips, story telling, gathering or capturing of data, measuring, calibrating.

Ellen Røed is a research fellow in fine arts at Bergen Academy of Arts and Design, in the in The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme, and this exhibition constitutes the artistic result of her fellowshop project.

The exhibition will be opened by Dr. Werner Schmutz, director of Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos / World Radiation Center. 

Conversation with Signe Lidén on 'Writings'

‘Writings’, an installation by Signe Lidén commissioned by the European RESONANCE network, recently premiered at this year’s Flanders Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium, as part of the Festival’s Sounding City sound art program. Subsequent installments of the work will be part of upcoming RESONANCE events later this year.

In a conversation with Harold Schellinx, published at the RESONANCE blog, she elaborates on the thoughts, questions and fascinations that have been driving the development of the work.

New paper on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF)

The latest issue of  the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) includes an article on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF) by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan Schacher, entitled “The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format: Principles, Specification, and Examples”.

Abstract:

SpatDIF, the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, is an ongoing collaborative effort offering a semantic and syntactic specification for storing and transmitting spatial audio scene descriptions. The SpatDIF core is a lightweight minimal solution providing the most essential set of descriptors for spatial sound scenes. Additional descriptors are introduced as extensions, expanding the namespace and scope with respect to authoring, scene description, rendering, and reproduction of spatial sound. A general overview presents the principles informing the specification, as well as the structure and the terminology of the SpatDIF syntax. Two use cases exemplify SpatDIF’s potential for pre-composed pieces as well as interactive installations, and several prototype implementations that have been developed show its real-life utility.

The full paper can be found here. An earlier version of this manuscript was presented at the SMC conference 2012 where it received a Best Paper Award.

More info on SpatDIF can be found here.

Re: place seminar 2 - Place in sound and music

Images from the 2nd. Re: place seminar held in the tv production studio, Stein Rokkans Hus, University of Bergen, 2 - 3 May 2013. Hosted by Griegakademiet, programmed by Trond Lossius, Morten Eide Pedersen and Signe Lidén. Click the small slideshow to view it full size.

Trond Lossius introducing the seminar