…to dear incomprehension, or the pieces of the personal waitingHrvoje Pelicarić (HR)

spatial sound composition, 2025

Multichannel sound piece ...to dear incomprehension, or the pieces of the personal waiting continues the exploration of the relationship between the perception of sound and space. The sound material used is drawn from a database of sounds collected from previous experiments and research for various purposes. The live performance of the work starts from a pre-fixed sonic content and includes live mixing and manipulation, processing, and spatialization. The real-time manipulation of sound takes place through the use of objects as filters for processing, emphasizing the physical aspect of the medium of sound and its distribution in space.

This work is also part of an internal exploration of my own creative processes, or more precisely, certain associations and thoughts from which my creative processes begin — ones that often, and unintentionally, gradually become my obsession. These situations are sometimes sonic, sometimes spatial, perceptual, and at times synesthetic. They also have their own atmosphere. My brain works like this: an idea appears in the form of a situation that I soon begin to unravel, analyse, interpret, participate in, and then shape into a form that I believe suits the idea itself. At a certain point in life, I became aware of the existence of apophenia and accepted it as a principle by which I largely operate — and which, I would later realize, has accompanied me throughout my life. When used for creative purposes, it has great potential, and in my case, it seems to help me create the effect of a synesthetic whole.

— Hrvoje Pelicarić

Thanks to: Mijo Gladović, Alen Sinkauz, Davorka Begović, Samuel Beckett, Underworld

This work has been commissioned and produced by KONTEJNER as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

Hrvoje Pelicarić (HR)

Hrvoje Pelicarić is a sound designer, musician, and multimedia artist. He graduated in audio engineering and earned a master’s degree in Media Arts, but the beginnings of his artistic work date back to the 1990s, rooted in the independent alternative and experimental scene. Namely, Pelicarić is one of the founders and members of the then-progressive, now cult band Zidar Betonsky, and he made a significant contribution to the work of the contemporary theater and activist group Fraktal Falus Teatar at the time.

In his past sound and spatial-sound works, he has explored the relationship between sound, space, and the body in various ways. He is interested in the nature of the human perceptual apparatus and all its specificities and illogicalities. Using his engineering knowledge, Pelicarić also engages as a music author in exploring the physical characteristics of sound, and through their artistic shaping, he strives to establish an intimate sonic environment — sometimes in contrast, and sometimes in harmony with the outside world. Theatre remains present as an association through the created intermedia situations, strategies of working with sound material, and/or the use of (deconstructed) text templates as a starting point.

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