Venue (rerun): Mestna hiša Ljubljana, September 2026
Produkcija (rerun): KUD Mreža
Improvisation for cymbals and electronics with many loops in a quadraphonic spatial arrangement creates a dense, hypnotic sonic fabric. Through multiplication, sampling, and looping with modular synths, the artists build a network of responses that stretch time and expand space into a multi-layered soundscape. The cymbals no longer function solely as a percussive source, but also as triggers of microtonal interferences that spread through the space in dialogue with the electronics. The loops are layered, overlapped, and transformed, while the performers respond acoustically and electronically to emerging sonic impulses in real time, shaping a dynamic, organic structure at the edge of control.
Composed and performed by: Jaka Berger, Ida Hiršenfelder, Urška Savič
Venue (premiere): Judgement Tower (Minoriti), Maribor (SI), 29 May 2026, at 20:00
Co-production: ON Rizom (Nataša Serec), Vakum (Kaja Fiedler, Vita Kolar, Marko Brumen, Marko Borko, Marko Vidic, Aljoša Peternel, Nina Farič, Klemen Šali), Maribor Puppet Theatre (technical director Gašper Bohinec)
Year of production: 2026
Photo: Luka Hernet (Vakum Archive)
Bios
Jaka Berger – Brgs is a versatile artist who has been co-creating the core of the Slovenian independent music landscape for more than twenty years. The drummer, percussionist, composer, improviser, electronic experimenter and sound researcher virtuously moves between jazz, free jazz, improvisation, electroacoustics, dub, noise, experimental hip hop and punk. In recent years, Berger has been one of the key links of the Slovenian experimental and modular scene. As an initiator of the Clockwork Voltage community, he connects artists from various artistic fields, organises meetings, concert cycles and workshops, and is a driving force of the development of modular synthesis in Slovenia.
Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip) is a sound artist and archivist making psychogeographical, spatial and ambisonic compositions, sound installations and sound walks. Her work primarily explores sound ecology and spatialisation, addressing themes such as the agency of non-organic others, non-human languages, and listening to the inaudible. She is a member of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies, the Clockwork Voltage community for modular synthesis, and the CENSE Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies. Her solo albums were published by the Kamizdat label. She frequently composes for contemporary dance, for which she received the Golden Lightning Award for soundscape from the Bunker Institute in the 2023/24 season.
Urška Savič (Sava šumi) is a photographer, publicist and radio artist, whose work focuses on archival practices, questions of memory, and the relationships between visual and sonic media. From 2019 to 2025, she worked as the artistic director of the open radio-based (artistic-theoretical) research platform R A D A R at Radio Študent, where she developed projects at the intersection of art, theory, and the radio medium. She teaches at the Department of Photography at ALUO, is a member of the editorial boards of Fotografija / Membrana and the Journal for the Critique of Science (ČKZ), and is part of the photography collective Kela. As an author and collaborator, she also contributes to the third programme of Radio Slovenia – Ars.
Special thanks: Robida – Topolovo, Radio Študent