Simina Oprescu
electroacoustic composer & sound artist
sonosphist, noetist
CV
Education
B.A. Moving Image & Photography, UNArte (Bucharest) (2012-2016)
Electroacoustic & acousmatic composition at Royal Conservatoire de Mons / Arts² (2017-2018)
M.A. Sound Studies & Sonic Arts at UdK, Berlin (2021 - 2024).
for Video & Film
2018
Sound producing & composition for the videofilm
Vestigial Structures
of the artistNona Inescu
exhibited in the gallery Frac des Pays de la Loire (Fr). -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teYs-L0ssKsExhibited in 2020 at
CCRMA Stanford at Audiovisual Wall by invitation of
Constantin Basica
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/wave/?fbclid=IwAR2uJDNxP-hr85lcwo4d-XNFYYqf4C61ByxhJ7b9HLAKl7J3mbF2SEl99xM2020
Drăguș - Life in a Romanian Village
(1929, one of the first sociological and ethnographical documentary films in the world)
silent film, runtime: 48 minutes
music: Simina Oprescu
- in the frame of Possible Sounds of Early Cinema project, conceived by Image and Sound (Bucharest)
live concert at Rezidența BRD Scena9 for the screening of "Drăguș”
2021
Bucharest Hours (Witold Klimowicz, 1942)
silent film, unedited footage, runtime: 61 minutes
music: Simina Oprescu
https://imageandsound.ro
Only specialized dictionaries still recall the name of Polish documentary filmmaker Witold Klimowicz, who came to Romania seeking shelter from the early horrors of the Second World War. Once employed at the National Office of Cinematography, Klimowicz would collaborate with Paul Călinescu (“How is a Film Piece Made?”, 1940) and oversee the first steps of young filmmaker Victor Iliu.
Commenced in September ’42 and resumed later for technical reasons, “Bucharest Hours” was intended to embody the urban symphony of a supple and chic Bucharest so as to draw attention away from the war. As it stands today, the film is, above all, the shooting journal of a most eager filmmaker. As Klimowicz never managed to carry out his project, the footage stored at the National Film Archive includes shaky frames, retakes, landscapes captured in multiple takes, “duplicates”, as it were, and others. It is by fortune alone that those of us today can witness the film in its unpolished form, partly because it grants us more of its charming images before which we can never deem ourselves satiated. Let him who does not behold longingly the promise of early buildings, the folk loitering around pools, the adornments of the masses on boulevards, the carefree day-to-day spent in cafés, step forward. Every so often, we must all partake in such opium. As this Bucharest never existed in effect, but was edited to appear thus. This is, in part, why we’re fortunate that its retakes and duplicates are on display. Not only are the vistas of the University and the Roman Square anthological, but also, or above all, the boy who stumbles into frame and forces the operator to shield the lens with the palm of his hand. (Călin Boto)
https://imageandsound.ro/en/intermedia/short-sounds-silent-romanian-documentary/bucharest-hours-urban-documentary-1942/
Hydrophites
The outcome of Nona Inescu and Simina Oprescu collaboration. A very limited artist edition of twenty 10” records (signed and numbered) of the soundtrack composed by yours truly, for her most recent video work “Hydrophites”, featuring the talented vocalist Geo Aghinea.
The sound on each record is unique, a charachteristic of the vinyl lathe cutting process done by Balàsz Kovács. The record was made in the context of Nona Inescu’s exhibition “Waterlily Jaguar” at SpazioA, Italy.
︎https://curamagazine.com/digital/nona-inescu/
︎https://artviewer.org/nona-inescu-at-spazioa-2/
︎https://www.facebook.com/1532102021/videos/10224666215872777/
︎https://vimeo.com/517467612
2021 - 2024
Composing for the artist duo
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán
The Last Particles (2018)
mixed-media installation (HD video with stereo sound, 8 min. 45 sec., photography, sand, aluminium structure, microscope, lab cabinet, etc.),
variable dimensions.
The Last Particles reveals material traces – today hardly discernible with the naked eye – of a major turning point in the history of the twentieth century: the Second World War D-Day landings. The artistic research, presented in a laboratory situation that was especially developed for this project, is focused on the ‘magnetic sand’ from Omaha Beach in Normandy, which contains a high proportion of heavy minerals and shrapnel particles from bombs. The metallic particles slowly erode among the beach sand but will survive for millennia as it transforms from the detritus of military technology to the geological stratum.
The video shows the individual metallic particles emerging from the sand and becoming ‘actors’ moving according to a predefined choreographic score. Terms such as ‘viral force’, ‘emotional velocity’, ‘coercive dissolution’, ‘disoriented agency’, ‘contagion’, and ‘exhaustion’ are inspired by swarm intelligence and crowd psychology. It reflects on forms of assembly, violence, and power. In the video, the minute particles gather into a collective and gradually become a kind of living organism.
The project centers on the question of whether a landscape – a ‘micro-ruin’ and a significant archaeological site of violent conflict – bears within it the potential to imagine a new habitat. The animated particles could be elements of a world emerging from ruins.
Alice Wilke (excerpt from the catalog of the exhibition Territories of Waste, Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2022)
Sound: Simina Oprescu (composed 2021)
Photo credits: Fanny Trichet
Courtesy by Frac des Pays de la Loire
According to The Sedimentary Record, the sand of Normandy beaches conceals 4% debris of bombs and metal fragments (“magnetic sand”) from the D-Day landings - the battle that helped end the Second World War and redrew the map of Europe. The “magnetic sand”, along with other examples, is forming the layer of the Debrisphere, which stands for a type of artificial terrain, concealed by nature.
Blue Ground (2021-2022)
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3-channel video installation, HD, color, stereo sound, 12 min. 05 sec. vinyl lettering on the floor, variable dimensions
Text and video editing A.Benera A.Estefan, sound: Simina Oprescu, voice Gigi Spelsberg
In a three-channel video setup, three places are brought together: the Namibian desert, the Atlantic Ocean, and a shipyard on the Black Sea coast where the world's first custom-built diamond recovery vessel, the Benguela Gem, was constructed. This ship, commissioned by De Beers Group and named after the Benguela dolphins, began diamond mining off the coast of Namibia in 2022.
From the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, by way of Namibia's desert, distinct geographies and industries interconnect through a common history of extraction. This history is narrated through the voice of a fugitive diamond that has broken free from human hands.
Research and documentation:
Basler Afrika Bibliographien, The Rachel Carson C
Comissioned and produced by 39th EVA International 2020-2021, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art
supported by Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Solitude Project Cultural Association Bucharest, and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
Rehearsals for Peace (2023)
2 channel 4K video installation, color, stereo sound, 16:26 min,
hay, recycled wooden boards, tree branches, textiles, fur, military tripod, whip, and other found materials.
Imagine a pastoral landscape where the rhythmic grazing of animals seamlessly accommodates the military training schedule, resulting in a surreal coexistence of sheep and armored vehicles. This peculiar juxtaposition characterizes the daily life of Cincu, a Transylvanian village nestled in central Romania.
A tale from the 16th century narrates the story of Ursula, a female figure disguised as a man, who successfully chased away occupying intruders (at that time, the Ottomans) using the supersonic sound of a whip. This account purportedly originated in Cincu, which today houses one of NATO’s key combat training zones in Romania.
Rehearsals for Peace breathes life into Ursula's legend within the present-day occupied pastoral landscape, employing the sonic might of whip-cracking as a spell. The film portrays a contemporary Ursula facing the modern armored vehicles, and harnessing the potential of the local ritual. She assimilates elements from the military's choreographic lexicon, like tactical hand signals, and intertwines them with the ancient practice of whip-cracking.
performer: Simona Dabija
DOP & editor: Tudor Cioroiu
camera assistant: Andra Mirea
color grading: Simona Cristea
sound composition: Simina Oprescu
field recordist: Laurenţiu Coţac
mask and costume designers: Dinu Bodiciu, Olah Gyarfas
CGI: Sergiu Negulici
comissioned by Neue Berliner Kunstverein, 2023
co-produced by the n.b.k. Video-Forum and Austrian Federal Ministry for Art and Culture
Photo: © n.b.k. / Jens Ziehe / artists
Courtesy the artist n.b.k. Video-Forum and Kadist Collection
DesFacerea Lumii/ UnWorlding - ongoing (2024)
October 24, 2024–March 1, 2025
"UnWorlding foregrounds pressing ecological concerns that have preoccupied the artists in recent years, including extractivism, the overexploitation of natural resources, and the entanglements between environmental degradation and militarization.
The research-oriented practice of Anca Benera and Arnold Estefán spans a range of media, including art installation, video, and performance, and explores concealed patterns within historical, social, and geopolitical narratives. Their projects often focus on the relationship between environmental history and resource politics, exploring how military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities. They address the global ecological crisis by weaving stories of non-human protagonists and fostering interconnectedness among humans, minerals, plants, and animals."
Curators: Krisztina Hunya and Diana Marincu
The exhibition is continuing the cooperation with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Berlin, where the first episode of this collaboration took place in 2023: Rehearsals for Peace, the artists’ first solo exhibition in Germany.
sound composition: Simina Oprescu
DOP: Tudor Cioroiu
Installation works
2022
The Circle
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Nonument is defined as architecture, monuments, public spaces, and infrastructure, the meaning of which has changed as a result of social or political changes. Circle was created as part of the Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition proiect, based on the themes of work and happiness. During artist residencies in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Mondaino, Italy, Neja Tomsic and her group explored public parks as neuralgic points of public life. The starting and focal point of the theme is a specific park, the park of railroad workers in Cluj-Napoca, which has undergone many transformations. Using various recording and research methods, Neja Tomsic explored its history and current state, particularly the remnants of the past that are layered in the earth - material relics, and are also stored in the imagination and memories of people and other living beings.
The Circle is an immersive documentary installation with narration, 60 min
Authors: Neja Tomsic and Nonument! Group
Performing: Nonument Group (Neja Tomsic, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Milos Kosec)
Sound composition & design: Simina Oprescu
Sound technician: Luka Seliskar
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Technical coordinator: Martin Lovsin
Technical crew: Andrej Petrovcic, Dusko Pusica, Manca Vukelic, Vid Starman
Producers: Alma R. Selimovic, Klara Drnovsek Solina, Ajda Koloini
Public relations: Tamara Bracic Vidmar
Produced by: Bunker, Ljubljana
Co-produced by: Centrul Cultural Clujean, L'Arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino
Playsoundground
Simina Oprescu & Vilte Gustyte
Coming from the hide and seek game, popular among countries, we made a map of the field where we hid and marked the spot of the 10 hidden headphones and their mp3's. Audience is invited to participate.
Organised by Klanglandschaften in collaboration with SoundS UdK, Berlin
Part of the "Un-listening/natural landscapes" that invite each audience to explore multifaceted listening methods, modes and situations of a peculiar place in Hobrechtsfelde/ Rieselfelder. With the presented installations, listening sessions and performances, the act of listening becomes forms of questioning and developing perspectives of today and the past.
Artists: Haesoo Eshu Jung, Heather Fae Calla, Jorge Vicario Guille, Juan Pablo de Luca, Merey Senocak, Salome Lubczanski, Samantha Simmons, Selim Elsadek
2020
• Comissioned quatrophonic works by
CYNETART Festival
https://www.cynetart.org/2020/#9
and
SONICA Festival
https://www.sonica.si/artists-projects2020due to Covid-19.
RADAR NEW MEDIA ART Festival - ACT LIFT OFF
(that can be explored next year, at RADAR 2021.)
4 weeks, 5 creative teams and over 1200 hours at Romaero. The purpose – to restore a Boeing 737 fuselage (12m long) to its initial shape and turn it into an immersive light (400 sqm of LED) and sound installation. A project developed by 5 creative teams: Mișu Cojocaru, Adrian Adilau Sandulescu, Aural Eye, Ygreq Interactive, Simina Oprescu, Silviu Stroe, Diț
Sound design: Simina Oprescu
https://fb.watch/21MFCn3VkN/
2018
SECONDARY SONIC SPACE
https://secondaryspace.simultan.org
more about published in TURBULENCES VIDEO #101 - FR
Radiophonic & radio drama
2017
‘ONE BAG OF ROTTEN TOMATOES ONE BAG OF ROTTEN POTATOES’
2018
‘DRIP DROP’
2020
‘THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT, THE FEELING OF THE CAVE’
at
Kunstradio Austria
Musikprotokoll
Radio Hoerer
Radio broadcast
2021
Resonance Fm
2020
Cashmere Radio with Eastern Daze
2019
Red Light Radio
live at Control Club, Bucharest
Noods Radio with Subterranean Modern
radioCONA - Cona Zavod/Institute
Workshops & Residencies
2017
Charo Calvo
(ES, BE) - composer, sound artist -Techniques of Sonorous Writing
inside the project Her Voice by SEMI SILENT2018
Philippe Franck
(BE) - art historian, designer and cultural critic, producer, sound creator and intermediary, director ofTranscultures
- Centre of Interdisciplinary Arts of Sonorous & Numeric Culture
, Secondary Sonic Space InstallationRaymond Delepierre
(BE) - sound artist and sound engineer, Secondary Sonic Space Installation (2018)Felix Blume
(FR, ES ) - sound artist, field recordist and sound engineer,Sonic Future Residency
, Asociația Jumătatea Plină2019
Erwin Stache
(DE) - composer, sound artist, mathematician -Sonorous Interventions In The Urban Space
inside Săptămâna Sunetului/ Week of Sound.2021
RIVERSSSOUNDS
organised by DZESTRA (Ukraine) in parternship with SEMI SILENT (Romania) - https://riversssounds.org/mures2024
Christina Kubisch
Electromagnetic Fields workshop and field recording with Kubisch’s special headphonesLectures, Interviews, Writings & Panel Talks
2019
• Lecture on
Sound, Listening and Acousmatic composition
inside the Bandwidth Residency
supported by Ștefan Câlția Foundation and Galeria Posibilă at Șona.- review by Daria Nedelcu on Bandwidth Residency and the 3rd edition of
Sounds like a book.
https://revistaarta.ro/en/bandwidth-2/?fbclid=IwAR1x3rI02adwSdjXFJjdLc7CWkSfcELN3jyfAWOoWfXpinbcqFCbvpvr0Co
• Panel Talk on
Sound & Capital
insideSONICA Festival
coordinated by Andrej Tomažin - https://vimeo.com/368630941• In conversation with Dražen Dragojević - https://vimeo.com/365707125
KAJET JOURNAL - SONIC FUTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Thanks to Petrică Mogoș for inviting to share my thoughts to Kajet Journal,
here is a critical view on Eastern European post-communist realities + some interviews of me and Lucia Udvardyova taken by Lucie Korbelová in a really good article on sound in the Antrophocene: go and grab one an read it on your post-communist armchair.
2020
https://fb.watch/20W-9BOa5F/
Is musicality specific to humans only? Can animals consciously perceive pitches and beats? Do birds get high when they sing? Watch an interesting and entertaining talk between artist Simina Oprescu and music cognition scientist prof.
Dr. Henkjan Honing
He recently published his research“The evolving animal orchestra” at MIT Press.
A more detailed lecture about his research here: https://bit.ly/2SZihj2
Part of "Probabilities Around the Center".With support from SHAPE platform, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Co-financed by A.F.C.N. - Administratia Fondului Cultural National.
• Interview
Revista Arta
- http://revistaarta.ro/en/sound-has-color-anyway/• 10 day training residency on Acousmatic composition inside Rezidența21 at LETEA IN UNESCO by association MATKA, together with Diana Miron, Sillyconductor (Cătălin Matei) and special guest Laurențiu Coțac - https://www.facebook.com/rezidenta21/
• Interview
SHAPE
- https://shapeplatform.eu/2020/the-sound-is-the-soul-an-interview-with-simina-oprescu/2023
Paddling to the End
essay onSHAPE+
booklet2024
Interview
A Meteorite Falling in the Cosmic Oscillation
onFifteen Questions
Essay
Phantasy & Ilussion: Audio Unconscious in Creative Sound Practice
published onSonic Scope Journal, Issue 6
Awards & Nominations
2020
NIMBOSTRATUS
awarded the 3rd place in the compositional contest'Quoting Beethoven'
on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven.Organisers – Goethe-Institut, forumul cultural austriac, SĂPTĂMÂNA SUNETULUI, National University of Music, Bucharest.
https://soundcloud.com/siminaoprescu/nimbostratus
The soundtrack of
Drăguș - Life in a Romanian Village
together with Image and Sound is nominated for theDécouvertes Pierre Schaeffer
award atPhonurgia Nova
‘Phonurgia nova awards selection committee is pleased to unveil the list of nominated authors for the 2020 festival which will take place at BnF on October 2/3 and 4 Out of 305 productions received from 30 countries, 40 creations have been selected from the most amazing of the moment. They are already audible online by the jury who can now read them - and prepare the arguments they will exchange in front of you, during this much-awaited listening feast.’
http://phonurgia.fr/2020/09/03/oreilles-deconfinees/
SHAPE+
Platform for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from
Europe
https://shapeplatform.eu/artist/simina-oprescu/
2019
SEMI SILENT
Awards - Audience Award for the workDRIP DROP
composed and recorded during theSonic Future Residency
in 2018.Grand Prix Nova - Short Forms
with the workDRIP DROP
Silver Award︎ http://www.grandprixnova.ro/info/info-index.htm?c=4741&g=7
︎ https://www.facebook.com/gpnromania/videos/690897831339371/
2018
Inner Sound New Arts Festival - Jury's Award
Part of the laureats at the Innersound New Arts Festival - 100years of Romanian Sounds with the recomposed work Tragic Numberture inspired by the original composition of romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici - Tragic Ouverture.
https://soundcloud.com/innersound_bucharest/simina-oprescu-tragic
Releases
2023
Binaural composition based on the book Green Hermeticism by Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Behind the practice, I chose different citations and quotes from it to give a general sense and meaning to the whole depth of this book that I recommend jumping in. It goes from spoken word to psychoacoustic phenomena following a narrative path, consciousness enabling language, and communication of unconventional belief systems about matter, energy, and spirit. The real takes the place of the symbolic. As Ilya Prigogine deduced, “In equilibrium, the matter is ‘blind’, but in far-from-equilibrium conditions it begins to be able to perceive, to ‘take into account’, in its way of functioning, differences in the external world”. Nature is perceptive.
"On the very first pages Novalis evokes hermetic science quite specifically: Various are the roads of man. He who follows and compares them will see strange figures emerge, figures which seem to belong to that great cipher which we discern written everywhere, in wings, eggshells, clouds and snow, in crystals and in stone formations, on ice-covered waters, on the inside and outside of mountains, of plants, beasts and men, in the lights of heaven, on scored disks of pitch or glass or in iron filings round a magnet, and in strange conjunctures of chance. In them we suspect a key to the magic writing, even a grammar, but our surmise takes on no definite forms and seems unwilling to become a higher key."
"Nature, from this point of view, is consciousness. Consciousness is the seed-cause, the primal causal energy, containing within it source, fruit, and end, the unity of which as we shall see is time as genesis.
Consciousness seeks itself through all its metamorphoses and its path is the path of nature, which is an unvarying rhythm."
"For Hermeticism, nature or creation is a living, spiritual, conscious, fourfold unfolding unity: a "formative metaphysical power." Titus Burckhart confirms this when he writes: "The expression 'nature' has a very precise meaning. It does not simply mean the involuntary becoming of things, but rather a unitary power or cause whose essence may be known by perceiving its all embracing rhythm - a rhythm which rules both the outward and the inward world." "
"V.I.T.R.I.O.L VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES
OCCULTUM LAPIDEM (Visit the Interior of the Earth and Rectifying You will Find the Hidden Stone)"
"In the words of a founding mother of Hellenistic alchemy, Maria the Jewess, also called Maria Prophetessa, the legendary sister of Moses: "One becomes two, two becomes three and by means of the third and fourth, realizes unity: thus two are but one."
The unity of four-in-one that Maria invokes in her saying, which was called by Jung the most important in alchemy, is what the ancient Pythagoreans called the holy Tetraktys, which is in a sense none other than the four states of consciousness common to all traditions: the waking state, the dream state, the state of dreamless sleep, and the fourth state.
In other words: in order to "create," One must become Two-it must look at itself. It must divide.
The unique, irreducible, indivisible cause-source
One must become Two."
"Thus the source becomes mineral; the mineral becomes plant; the plant becomes animal; the animal becomes human; the human becomes divine."
Photo cover: Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt edition, 1749
Narrators voice at the beginning: Zach Hart
Recorded, designed and composed by Simina Oprescu
released May 26, 2023
Commisioned for the
Library of The Center for Visual Studies
, Bucharest andGreen Peace Romania
with support from
Carturesti Foundation
2020
‘A new world eats an old one
and forms a schizoid dichotomy.
The alleged spiritual energy within all human beings. According to a certain group of Japanese artists, channelling your Ki will allow you to perform normally impossible tasks, such as shooting a Kamehameha wave from your hands.
Basically, Ki is what souls are made of.
'It is 2056. The air is crammed with a strung-out anticipation and not a moment goes by that does not foreshadow the demise of an eleven-billion-strong species. Environmental warfare spreads by plants; insect-machine hybrids carrying diseases designed to infect specific racial and ethnic groups via targeted DNA sequencing; volatile weather systems; all meld in this ecology of collapse.' - Toby Heys
Change has its manifestation through every form, and the invisible form will have a strong word to say in our subconscious and emotion processing throughout this apocalyptic burn out times. An invisible revolution of the soul. ‘
worked between late2019 - early2020, Bucharest, Romania
released June 30, 2020
https://siminaoprescu.bandcamp.com/album/ki
THE WIRE - Below the Radar
KI 03released - CD compilation SHAPE Artists 2020
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-special-edition-shape-platform-2020/13
the ATTIC
KI 02https://theatticmag.com/audio/2398/romanian-contemporary-music-_-part-2.html
︎ MACHINESTIC
track released on Hallucinating Heights released on cassette by Ondes HXCX.
https://ondeshxcx.bandcamp.com/album/hallucinating-heights?fbclid=IwAR2yxiiTImrDZKwEWFfw3XE0oSJPtvoexJJ1VSHJAtZFXwoVklWRiBdhHNU
LIVE concerts
2023
Map x Territory at Simultan XVIII
Hyper-connected communities, Large Language Models, quantum computer clusters and socio-cultural progress share their time and space with ghosts of the past, geopolitical spasms and expressions of conflict. At a time when we seek new definitions, what constitutes a territory? What does a map show/explain? What are we and what are the boundaries of who we want to be?
Romanian-born, Berlin-based Cosmin Nicolae, Simina Oprescu and Matei Băcanu ask questions of a diasporic tone, in a sonorous and visually resonant quest to chart out concerns and stimulate introspection.
The audio-visual performance weaves original compositions with generative iterations and live electro-acoustics – perpetually unique, never to be repeated.
2022
Sturmundrang #5 at arkaoda, Berlin
Multichannel concert night with artists Simina Oprescu, Max Eilbacher and Mauro Zannoli
Map x Territory at arkaoda, Berlin
Hyper-connected communities, Large Language Models, quantum computer clusters and socio-cultural progress share their time and space with ghosts of the past, geopolitical spasms and expressions of conflict. At a time when we seek new definitions, what constitutes a territory? What does a map show/explain? What are we and what are the boundaries of who we want to be?
Berlin-based Cosmin Nicolae, Simina Oprescu and Michael Tan ask questions of a diasporic tone, in a sonorous and visually resonant quest to chart out concerns and stimulate introspection.
The audio-visual performance weaves original compositions with generative iterations and live electro-acoustics – perpetually unique, never to be repeated. Supported by musikfonds e.V.
2020
SIMULTAN XV Festival
- https://fb.watch/20WBQkl3z4/
Review on Positionen.Berlin
- https://www.positionen.berlin/post/position-simultan-festival?fbclid=IwAR3rU2iN11EolRnzqzBAYW4kw1XEAM52ccS5hAk2UY1gBNN-I2FxiZRka1I
• 45 min live concert “Deep Surroundings with a Splash! of Water” inside Kristin Wenzel’s life-size installation
‘The Near and the Elsewhere’ at Suprainfinit Gallery
- https://www.facebook.com/events/ 147491233106394/
2019
• 40 min live concert at
POCHEN Multimedia Biennale Symposium
in Chemnitz, Germany - https://soundcloud.com/siminaoprescu/deepsurroundings
• 40min live session w/modular synth at Kino Šiška in Ljubljana at
SONICA Festival
in collaboration with
MOTA museum
- https://www.facebook.com/pg/kinosiska.si/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10157413888869876&ref=page_internal
• 50min live concert at Slănic Moldova in the Salt Mine, during the festival IN CONTEXT - https://www.facebook.com/events/1126255644232140/
• 1h30m live set w/ modular synth - RezidențaBRD Scena9 POST MUZICA invites the audience of the BRD Scena9 Residence to a program curated by Mitoș Micleușanu and produced by the Foundation9 dedicated to sound and active artists in the experimental area of contemporary music.Each POST MUSIC edition will include a presentation of the guest artist, a discussion moderated by the curator of the program, Mitoș Micleuşanu, and a performance - live audition.
"Post-music is what remains when we forget everything we know about music, what remains when we no longer try to" delight the eardrums "(or mourn them) harmonically or rhythmically what remains when the sound becomes an intuitive paste. modeled, when we discover in real time how it "escapes" us from the aesthetic, conceptual control, etc. one of the fundamental questions related to post-music: is it possible to make the sound under the "dictatorship" of music? all the more so as including the noises in their diversity, the sound of the city or the forest, they can be considered [a kind of] music. Their spectral structure, the possibilities of transforming an already recorded sound, allow it to be approached or removed from what we understand by music in this case, is it white noise music? if its "granular dissection" allows re-shaping, reassembly of its sonic particles, into a song? the first conclusion would be that: any noise contains "latent music" at the granular level, as in the subatomic physics there is the hypothesis of the elementary particle (quanta) that contains the imprint of the object of which it is part, a kind of memory of the whole subatomic scale."
https://soundcloud.com/post-muzica/editatwav
• 3h30m Hybrid extended set at
Rokolectiv Festival
at Front Control Club
• 60 min, live performance at the Jobless AI series concerts at Club16
• KRAN NYE 2019 live performance 90 min.
2018
• 50 min. perfomance at Contemporary Art National Museum (MNAC) during a session with personal compositions organized by Brizura - A musical series hosting debuts, experiments and the merging of arts in unitarily-diverse spectacular nights.
https://www.facebook.com/events/234829430535136/
• Tripoteca festival, 40 min. live AV performance with the visuals of Mihai Matei.
Bucharest
https://www.facebook.com/Tripoteca/videos/vb.433842349992398/332063717553054/?type=2&theater
• Intersections with the live online project Experiment+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMKjVPDBzw
• 20 min performance at Sâmbăta Sonoră (Sonorous Saturday) during Săptămâna Sunetului - La Semaine du Son at Apollo111 Theatre
• 45 min performance at the radio Stazione di Topolò organized by Moreno Miorelli in the 24h festival ToBeContinued played from Bruxelles. http://www.stazioneditopolo.it/24h-2018/index.html