Photos in full resolution (left to right, top to bottom): Photo #1 by Nada Žgank, 2025. Photo #2, camera by Adam Mulalić / Kamizdat, 2020.. Photo #3 by Aleš Hieng – Zergon, 2020. Photo #4 by Marijo Zupanov / Kamizdat archive, 2023.

Short BIO

beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder) is a sound artist and archivist making psychogeographical spatial compositions and multi-sensory experiences. She primarily works in 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 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), Kunsthaus Graz (2025), and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2026). Her compositions and installations 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). 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

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 was an advisor to the Nomad Dance Academy network, which comprises contemporary dance archives from the former Yugoslavia. 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.