Reality-based Audio Workshop (2018-ongoing) is a meeting of artists from Norway and internationally, attempting to re-think the relationship between sound and reality in our time. The artists all use field recording of audio as a core of their artistic activities, and approach a chosen site with various advanced or experimental recording technologies. Thematic focus has so far been centered around various forms of energy and their land use, both historical and future ones. The project was initiated in 2018 by BEK, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts in collaboration with Ernst Karel from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Based upon the workshop the collective did in 2018, they made a collective work that was presented at Borealis Festival 2019: a 80-minute sound work presented at the cinema at USF in Bergen.
In 2019, some of the artists in the collective participated in Struer Tracks, a sound art festival in Denmark, where they worked with similar themes and questions, which resulted in a live mixed collaborative sound work.
Each year, artists from the Reality-based Audio Workshop collective participate in Reveil.
Reveil (2014-ongoing) is a 24-hour long live radio broadcast, that relies on the collective work of artists, ecologists and listeners who set up and share live audio streams. Taking place during the annual Dawn Chorus Day weekend in May, the broadcast starts in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, and picks up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light.
