Boštjan Perovšek

BOŠTJAN PEROVŠEK

(1956, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

PROFILE
musician, composer and soundscape artist, composes experimental, electro acoustic music. He specialises in creating bio-acoustic music based on the sounds of animals, especially insects. He plays on his own or with the band SAETA, which performs experimental music. He also creates music for film, theatre, performances and multimedia installations, as well as soundscapes for museums and galleries. He works also as sound engineer for film and video.

EXPERIENCE
He has published a number of CD’s, some as a solo artist, some with the band SAETA. His first vinyl LP entitled „Bio, Industrial Acoustica (green)“ reveals compositions from his bio-acoustics and urban noise opus.

SOME RECENT REFERENCES
He cooperate with scientists who works on the field of biotremology. In 2016 he has a concert at 1. international Symposium on Biotremology in Trento, Italy. In august 2018 he was in Berlin working on new sounds and compositions also with colleagues in Studio of Tomas Saraceno. In November 2018 he had a big audio exhibition in Green house in Tivoli park Ljubljana on a 8 channel surround system. During the exhibition he had also a solo concert and gave a lecture about his work. In May 2019 he has a concert / “A sonic spider’web tour” in Studio Tomás Saraceno’s Pavillion 7 - The Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program (8th-11th May) as part of “May You Live In Interesting Times” in Biennale Arte, Venice 2019 curated by Ralph Rugoff. In May 2020 project “Whispering Bowls (Šepet vrčev)” was premiered on radio hr2-kultur, The Artist’s Corner (https://www.hr2.de/suche/ index.nc.html?query=perovsek) and the intermedia exhibition “Interweaving Soundscapes” at the Gallery for Sound, Bioacoustics and Art Steklenik, Ljubljana. In January 2021 his composition Corona nights in Ljubljana” (Radio Edit) was selected for broadcasting for Art’s Birthday 2021 - Euroradio Ars Acustica Special Evening (https://arsacustica.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/2021-2200-2220-gmt- ljubljana/). Original version is on YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CHJWJER1Dc .