Course in soundscape recordings and studio techniques
An in-depth look at various microphone techniques used for works in the soundscape field. We will review classic techniques such as MS and multi-channel recording, and also more exotic techniques like underwater recording and ambisonics. We will also look at how outdoor recordings can be processed in order to attain improved audio quality.
Symposium – Soundscape in the Arts
Symposium, concerts and screening of films April 8.-10 2010
A travel report written by Ida Z. Mathistad (sorry, Norwegian only)
The Moon Goose Experiment, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, de 2008. From the program Studies in Light and Space.
Norwegian artist/writer Ida Z Mathistad will be responsible for content on the PNEK blog as from March/April 2010. She can be contacted at ida@pnek.org
PNEK is collaborating with La Société de Curiosités in Paris to let emerging Norwegian artists make small showcases in Paris, focussing on sound & performance works. The series will consist of 8-10 concerts during the spring.
These dates are confirmed so far
Feb 24: Signe Lidén
March 10: Andreas Meland (cancelled due to illness)
March 24: Jenny Hval
April 25: Nils Økland
April 30: Lisa Charlotte Baudouin Lie (cancelled)
tbc
Jørgen Larsson
Per Platou
Harald Fetveit/Per Gisle Galåen
Martin Aaserud
More general info (in French) here
We have designed a handy little 48-page brochure in A6-format, which comprises some of the activities planned for 2010 among the PNEK nodes, plus links and other useful info about festivals and friendly structures in Norway. We’ll bring it along wherever we go during the spring, e.g. the Rotterdam Film Festival (Jan 28-Feb 3), Transmediale (Berlin, Feb 3-7), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, Feb 25-28), and the Qwartz Awards (Paris, April 1-3). The snappy design is made by our friends @ Upstruct Berlin/Oslo.
We’ll happily send you one or more copies by post, just send us an email. Or you can download the folder here (< 18 Mb, pdf)
Peter Sinclair, english sound artist based in Marseille, will give a short presentation of his work at the Art Academy in Bergen, C Sundts gt 53 on friday Oct 9th, 2pm-4pm.
Sinclair is one of the founders of the Locus Sonus soundlab, co-hosted by l’École Supérieure d’Art en Provence, Aix, and Villa Arson, Nice.
He has just started an artistic PhD-program at the London University of the Arts, under the leadership of Angus Carlyle.
The presentation is given in connection with an informal PNEK network meeting in Bergen, culminating with the exhibition opening Blink by HC Gilje, who is just about to complete his three year artistic research fellowship program at Bergen Academy of the Arts.
Free entrance!
Our survey on Norwegian copyright holders’ knowledge about and attitude towards the CC licencing system is just ready, and can be dowloaded in pdf format in English version here. Original Norwegian version here.
btw: The statistical material is available here (in Excel or Open Office format) for those wanting to crunch the numbers themselves.
The report itself is licensed as CC by-nc-nd 3.0.
Utsikten Kunstsenter in Kvinesdal are open for artistic proposals in connection with a new, semi-permanent outdoor artwork to be exhibited from April 2010, under the label Digital Perspectives. The artwork should be using sensors (preferably organic ones), and have a production budget of NOK 220.000. The four best proposals will each receive NOK 10.000.
More information on the website of Utsikten Kunstsenter (Norwegian only). Deadline for proposals is November 9nd, 2009.
Tom Erik Davey, Oslo is the lucky winner of a high-end portable sound recorder with binaural microphones after we concluded our opinion poll on Creative Commons amongst Norwegian copyright holders. Congratulations!
The results from the CC poll will be published at the end of september, stay tuned!
Kvinesdal, May 2009: The general assembly elected a new PNEK Board for 2009-2010:
Chair: Torill Haugen, Kvinesdal (artistic director, Utsikten Kunstsenter)
Trond Lossius, Bergen (artist, BEK director)
Beathe C. Rønning, Sando (artist)
Synne Bull, Oslo (artist and chairwoman of the Atelier Nord board)
John Øivind Eggesbø, Stavanger (artist, principle at Rogaland School of Art)
Hilde Methi, Kirkenes (curator)