Photos in full resolution (left to right, top to bottom): Photo #1 by Marijo Zupanov / Kamizdat archive, 2023. Photo #2 by Miha Godec / Cona Institute, Švicarija, 2022. Photo #3 by Carlos Yoder, KUD Mreža, FriForma+AV, Osmo/za, 2019. Photo #4 by Urška Boljkovac. Švicarija, MGLC, 2020. Photo #5, still from Kamizdat / video by Črt Trkman and Stella Ivšek. Camera by Adam Mulalić, 2020. Photo #6 by Sean McIntyre, 2021. Photo #7 by Aleš Hieng – Zergon, 2020. Photo #8 by Aleš Hieng – Zergon, 2020. Photo #9 by Robertina Šebjanič, 2020. Photo #10 by Sunčan Stone / Cona Institute, 2020.
Short BIO
beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder) is a sound artist and archivist making immersive psychogeographical spatial compositions with electronics, code, analogue synthesizers, and field recordings. Her work primarily explores sound ecology and spatialisation, addressing themes such as the agency of non-organic others, non-human animal languages, and listening to the inaudible. She was a member of the Theremidi Orchestra (2011–7) and is currently part of the Jata C group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies (2018–), the Clockwork Voltage community for modular synthesis (2022–), and the CENSE Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (2022–). Her solo albums Noise for Strings, Vol. 1 (2019), Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020), and the forthcoming Rhythmagogia (2025) were published by the Kamizdat label. She has exhibited sound installations at group shows in museums such as MG+MSUM (2013, 2024, 2025), MSU Zagreb (2019), ZKM Karlsruhe (2022), and Kunsthaus Graz (2025). Her compositions have been presented at various festivals, including Ars Electronica, Linz (2016), Device Art, Zagreb (2019), OTTOsonics, Ottensheim (2022), Wave Field Synthesis, The Hague (2022, 2023), Motions | An Experimental Sound Event, Zagreb (2023), Experimance, Saarbrücken (2024), TO)pot Festival of Radical Walking, Ljubljana (2024), and Lighting Guerrilla, Ljubljana (2025, announced). Hiršenfelder completed a Master of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2023). She frequently composes for contemporary dance, for which she received the Golden Lightning Award from Bunker Institute for soundscape in the 2023/24 season. Web: https://beepblip.org/
Communities
Jata C, a group for bioacoustics and sound ecologies (C Flock)
Clockwork Voltage, Modular synth community
CENSE, Cross European Network for Sound Ecology
Longer BIO with links
beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder] is a sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive psychogeographical spatial compositions with code, electronics, analogue synths, and field recordings. She mainly works in the field of sound ecology and sound spatialisation. She was a member of the Theremidi Orchestra (2011–2017) DIY sound collective, performing in over 30 concerts at many international platforms for media art such as CT-SWaM & Eyebeam (New York), LiWoLi (Linz), Piksel (Bergen), Spektrum (Berlin), Share (New York), Radiona (Zagreb), Zagorje Noise Fest International (Trbovlje), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova – U3 (Ljubljana), Artos (Nicosia), KSEVT (Vitanje), Kino Šiška (Ljubljana). She is a co-founder of ČIPke Initiative for Women with a Sense for Technology, Science and Art with artist Saša Spačal, with whom she also collaborated on the production of two sound installations and a sound album. She collaborates with media artist Robertina Šebjanič and sound artist Aleš Hieng – Zergon on a series of chemical sound installations Sound Disposition / Crystal Gardens and Time Displacement / Chemobrionic Garden. The latter was presented in many shows including Ars Electronica (2016) in The Radical Atoms and the Alchemists of Our Time and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in The Beauty of Early Life (2022) group exhibition. Since 2018, she is a member of Jata C band for bioacoustics and sound ecology with Brane Zorman, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljič Podešva, OR poiesis, in the production of Cona (Steklenik – Gallery for Sound, Bioacoustics and Art). Jata C published three live performed compositions: ICEmeltings (2019), Bibaret (2020), and Chronolith (2023). She is a member of CENSE Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies, and a member of the Clockwork Voltage community for modular synthesis. Her solo albums Noise for Strings, Vol. 1 (2019), Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020), and Rhythmagogia (2025, announced) were published by the Kamizdat label. Since 2021, she has been developing several series of interdisciplinary sound works. “Empathic Atmospheres” series addresses the agency of non-organic others with ambisonic compositions such as “Wind Will Blow Us Away“, “Voluminous Movement of Watery Earth“, and “Chronolith“. She also explores inaudible sound with performative sound installations such as “Hyperthermia / Morphoiki“, “Spiral Fluctuations“, and Relative Silence at Dawn. Furthermore, she explores non-human-animal language translations in the “Translating Critters” series (“Under Beech Trees“, “Under Maple Trees“, and “Under Pine Trees“). She also runs workshops for inaudible sound detection, such as electromagnetic detectors, hydrophones, ionospherics, and ultrasonics. She completed her Master of Sonology studies at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (2023). She frequently composes for contemporary dance for which she was awarded Golden Lightning by Bunker Institute for season 2023/24 for soundscape in Snježane Premuš‘s Re-imagined. Web: https://beepblip.org/
BIO: archivist
Ida Hiršenfelder (1977) was employed at the +MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (2014-2021) on projects related to digital archives: editor of Web Museum, a repository for contemporary audio-visual art, editor of Moderna galerija home page. She was a member of L’internationale Online editorial board and co-curator of the Glossary of Common Knowledge. She is an advisor for the Nomad Dance Academy network, which consists of contemporary dance archives from the former Yugoslavia region. Previously, she was an archivist of DIVA Station, Digital Video Art Archive at SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana (2007-2013) containing over a thousand local artists’ video works. She co-created Art-area bi-weekly edition on contemporary art and was an editor of feminist monthly Sektor Ž at an alternative radio station Radio Študent (2006-2014). She worked as a correspondent and critic at Dnevnik Daily. Amongst other media, she published texts in Art Words Magazine (Ljubljana), Maska Magazine (Ljubljana), Digicult.it online magazine (Milano), FurtherField online magazine (London), Dialogi Magazine for Culture and Society (Maribor) and in exhibition catalogues. To this day, she writes on media art, and feminism in archives. She finished her BA studies in Sinology (2016) at the Faculty for Arts in Ljubljana and an MA in Sonology (2023) at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Link: Academia.edu