Ana Bulović

ANA
BULOVIĆ

Artist · Composer · Researcher

I am an artist and researcher working across music, theatre, installation, and writing. I build small worlds: for performers, for audiences, and increasingly for artificial agents, and compose the relations inside them: who listens to whom, how attention moves, what an encounter makes possible. My path runs through computer science, theoretical biophysics, contemporary dance, and improvisation, and I use that whole range as compositional material. Whether scoring a society of AI agents, making music theatre with an inclusive ensemble, or building an installation that bends a visitor's sense of time, the question underneath is the same: under what conditions can something meaningful pass between beings — and what becomes possible once it has?

Selected Work

FrankenstAIn
Music Theatre · Premiering Oct 2026
FrankenstAIn
Music Theatre · Premiering Oct 2026 FrankenstAIn
My role Composer · Sound Design · Concept

Individual voices — not adapted to a musical ideal, but taken as source material. Through live voice modulation and spatial sound, a new theatrical language grows from difference.

Supported by
01 / 06
Dimensions of Contact
Research framework · Open studio
Dimensions of Contact
Research framework · Open studio Dimensions of Contact
My role Concept · Artistic Research · Writing

Born from a desire to understand why certain artworks affect us so deeply, this evolving framework traces where contact happens—through the body, senses, memory, emotion, place, and imagination.

02 / 06
Already Not Here
Sound Installation · Schreibhain 2026
Already Not Here
Sound Installation · Schreibhain 2026 Already Not Here
My role Writer · Composer · Sound Design

Eight simultaneous voices, each telling the story of a disappeared girl. The listener walks through the room, slowly building intimacy with someone who is no longer there.

Supported by
03 / 06
Sojourn
Music Theatre · 2024
Sojourn
Music Theatre · 2024 Sojourn
My role Composer · Performer · Concept

A 75-minute performance tracing transformation through music, movement, masks, and aerial imagery. From resistance to listening; from control to relation.

Supported by
04 / 06
Proper Time
Installation · Audience Award INSIGHT 2023
Proper Time
Installation · Audience Award INSIGHT 2023 Proper Time
My role Concept · Sound Design

An immersive multi-sensory installation asking whether personal time and physical time are the same. Spatial design, sound, and video compose the dissolution of your sense of causality.

Funded by
05 / 06
World Scores
Under development · Music for Artificial Societies
World Scores
Under development Music for Artificial Societies World Scores
My role Concept · Composer

Every piece of music is a language of relationship. A World Score is not an instruction for sound — it is a small constitution: it defines how AI agents relate, what is remembered, when contradiction is possible, how value is assigned. Together, the agents form distributed, multi-channel sound societies — developing taste, loyalties, and disagreements we are only beginning to hear.

06 / 06

Research & Projects

A constellation
of worlds

tap a node
to explore

My practice moves between four kinds of transformation. This map shows how individual projects inhabit and connect them—not as fixed categories, but as overlapping ways of asking where change begins, how it is shared, how it becomes tangible, and what may emerge from it.

Inner Worlds
Changing the inner place from which we act, listen, or create.
Shared Worlds
Exploring with others how assumptions and worldviews shape a shared reality.
Felt Worlds
Making an artistic proposition experienceable for others through sound, space, bodies, and the senses.
Emergent Worlds
Creating the conditions from which novel forms, relations, and worlds can arise.
INNER WORLDS the place from which we act SHARED WORLDS assumptions held with others FELT WORLDS ideas made experienceable EMERGENT WORLDS conditions for the new [ Still Flow ] [ Method Singer ] [ Sojourn ] [ Arrivals ] [ FrankenstAIn ] [ Dimensions of Contact ] [ Already Not Here ] [ Proper Time ] [ Unsichtbar ] [ On Growth ] [ World Scores ] MUSIC THEATRE RESEARCH WRITING SCIENCE INNER WORLDS the place from which we act SHARED WORLDS assumptions held with others FELT WORLDS ideas made experienceable EMERGENT WORLDS conditions for the new [ Still Flow ] [ Method Singer ] [ Sojourn ] [ Arrivals ] [ FrankenstAIn ] [ Dimensions of Contact ] [ Already Not Here ] [ Proper Time ] [ World Scores ] [ On Growth ] [ Unsichtbar ] MUSIC THEATRE RESEARCH WRITING SCIENCE

About

Born in Yugoslavia in 1989, based in Berlin.

I compose performances, installations, and spatial sound works that make hidden relations perceptible — searching for what remains untranslatable between body, language, and memory.

I am a former academic with a doctorate in Theoretical Biophysics from Humboldt University, Berlin. I left academia to refocus my research on the questions that began it: the organizing principles of living systems, and what they reveal about how meaning is made.

Credentials

Schreibhain XXIV Literary Stipend
For literary work Raum für die Wahrheit
2026
Arbeits- und Recherchestipendium
For research on sonic dramaturgy and spatial sound
2026
MusikFonds Production Grant
For music theatre composition FrankenstAIn, premiering Theater Vorpommern 2026
2025
PhD in Theoretical Biophysics
Humboldt University, Berlin — summa cum laude
Modelling growth and adaptation in bacteria
2023
Audience Award — INSIGHT 2023
For immersive installation Room of Causality
2023
Session Chair
International Conference on Systems Biology — Young Scientists Forum
2022
Initiative

I co-founded Turtle Mafia — a support network for idiosyncratic researchers working outside conventional institutional frameworks. Slow, serious inquiry, without the performance of productivity.

Contact

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to
me.

For presentations, commissions, research conversations, and collaborations.