Biography
Simina Oprescu is a composer and artist working across electroacoustic composition, installation, and spatial sound. Her practice combines music, materials, architectural acoustics, and psychoacoustic phenomena, focusing on how resonance shapes listening. Drawing on synthetic sound, field recordings, natural materials, and computational processes, she creates works in which architecture and matter become active participants in musical form. Across stereo and multichannel formats, Oprescu composes works in which the acoustic qualities of materials, reverberation, and architectural space become integral to the composition.
In 2026, Oprescu created the sound composition and developed the spatial audio design for Black Seas – Scores for the Sonic Eye, Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán's project representing Romania at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Developed for the Romanian Pavilion and the New Gallery of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, the work drew on wave behaviour and the pavilion's acoustic properties to evoke the suspended sonic conditions of an anoxic underwater environment.
Her work has been presented internationally at EVA International – Ireland's Biennial, Museum Tinguely (Basel), Märkisches Museum (Berlin), Palmer Gallery (London), Art Encounters Foundation, MOTA Museum (Ljubljana), n.b.k. (Berlin), Hošek Contemporary (Berlin), Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest), MARe Museum of Recent Art (Bucharest), SONICA Festival (Slovenia), CynetArt (Germany), Rokolectiv (Romania), Simultan Festival (Romania), and ORF musikprotokoll (Austria). In 2020, she was selected for the SHAPE+ platform, recognising emerging artists working across experimental sound and audiovisual practices in Europe. Her music has been released by the Swiss label Hallow Ground and featured in The Quietus, The Wire, and Positionen Berlin.
