FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

beepblip

photo Urska Boljkovac

beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder] is a sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in 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) and Noise for Strings, Vol. 2 (2020) 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 was awarded Golden Lightning by Bunker Institute for season 2023/24 for soundscape in Snježane Premuš‘s dance performance.