Bostjan Perovsek

*1956, 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 and spiders. He performs solo and with various groups, including Jata C and SAETA, the first Slovene band engaged in experimental music. He is also active in international Free Forms of Arts movement where artists of different artistic genres (musicians, dancers, poets, writers, philosophers,…) actively meet.

He is also actively involved in sound ecology by organising sound safaris. He has released several CDs and a vinyl LP Bio, Industrial Acoustica (green,) with compositions from his bioacoustic and urban noise opus. He also creates music for film, theatre, performances and multimedia installations, as well as soundscapes for museums and galleries. In 2023, he took part, among other things, in the Free Forms of Art meetings, Chilli Jazz Congress and solo projects such as the To pot 2023 festival with his work The Eye that Hears the Past He is also preparing a project for the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025, Nova Gorica / Gorizia.

One of the most important parts of his work is how to connect art and science. One of the result of such work was his composition “Stenice, mrož in vrata plešejo kolo / Bugs, a Walrus and the Door are Dancing in a Circle”put in the selection of the 10 compositions from Europe and United States, proposed by the Association of the European Radio Stations (EBU) for the period 1995-96, and performed within the programme “Radio Ars Acustica”.