Sound and Silence
seminar on sound in art
Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, MA programme, September 2007.
21 September
Jørgen Larsson, sound artist, composer & curator presents “Sleppet” a sound art project realized for Grieg Year 2007 with Chris Watson, Jana Winderen, Bjarne Kvinnsland, Steve Roden, Marc Behrenss and Natasha Barrett
Erlend Hammer, critic & curator on the work of LaMonte Young
27 September
Maia Urstad & Jana Winderen, sound artists, on “Freq Out” an internatioonal collaborative audio art project
Robert Worby, sound artist, composer and BBC broadcaster on the ideas and the heritage of John Cage
Steve Dixon, artist and lecturer in art theory at KHIB on audio in post-fluxus art
Robert Cahen, video and film artist on sound & image in his work, and on collaboration with composers including John Zorn and Michel Chion
Evening performance events with NYC-based musician/artist Fast Forward & students from the MA programme at KHIB
28 September
Anne Hilde Neset, writer and curator, deputy editor of The Wire, on the history of noise
Trond Lossius, sound artist and director of Bergen Centre for Electronic Art
David Toop, musician, writer and curator, on recent work
Brandon LaBelle, sound artist and writer, on recent work
