ECHO52 – AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 – 21:00
@ Østre / Skostredet 3 / Bergen – Norway
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Up to Norway! I am playing two pieces for cello and live electronics with Reactive Ensemble at the Piksel Festival in Bergen Norway:
Kyungjin Lim – [mi:t]spiel (2024) for violoncello, live electronics and video
Savannah Agger – Being Water (2024) for violoncello and electronics
with Celine Papion, Violoncello – Kyungjin Lim, live electronics – Remmy Canedo, live electronics
Piksel is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies.
The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the Free/Libre and Open Source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.
Reactive Ensemble is an electro-acoustic collective from Stuttgart dedicated to reshaping the nature of music creation and performance. Through unlimited experimentation, the ensemble creates innovative formats that challenge traditional music conventions and reimagine how sound, space, and collaboration can be experienced. In 2023, the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists awarded the ensemble with the EFFEA Discovery Residency and in 2024 with the Springboard Residency, which gave the ensemble the opportunity to establish partnerships with the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece), Piksel Festival (Norway), Festival Catalysi (Italy) with the support of the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival (Germany).