Ida Hiršenfelder
Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip) 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 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. (2025)
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