Ana Bulović

ANA
BULOVIĆ

Artist · Composer · Researcher

"Stories shape an agent, an agent shapes the world, the world shapes back." — Ian Cheng, Emissaries

Ana Bulovic is a Berlin-based composer, writer, theatre maker, and artistic researcher. She creates performances, installations, spatial sound works, and texts that make hidden relations perceptible: between bodies and memory, sound and social rules, audiences and performers, or humans and artificial agents.

With a background in computer science, contemporary dance, improvisation, and theoretical biophysics, she approaches composition as the design of conditions under which new forms can emerge.

Her current research, Music for Artificial Societies, develops world scoring as a practice for composing with AI agents that listen, remember, misread, and cooperate.

Selected Work

World Scores
Music for Artificial Societies · ongoing
World Scores
Music for Artificial Societies · ongoing 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.

01 / 05
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
02 / 05
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
03 / 05
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 / 05
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
05 / 05

Research & Projects

A constellation
of worlds

tap a node
to explore

Each node is a project. The lines between them trace shared questions that persist across different forms — a research map, not a timeline. Projects belong to one or more worlds: Inner, Shared, Felt, or Emergent.

INNER WORLDS states of being SHARED WORLDS worldviews & cosmologies FELT WORLDS perception & immersion EMERGENT WORLDS generative self-organisation [ Still Flow ] [ Method Singer ] [ Sojourn ] [ Arrivals ] [ FrankenstAIn ] [ Dimensions ] [ Already Not Here ] [ Proper Time ] [ Unsichtbar ] [ On Growth ] [ World Scores ] MUSIC THEATRE RESEARCH WRITING SCIENCE INNER WORLDS states of being SHARED WORLDS worldviews & cosmologies FELT WORLDS perception & immersion EMERGENT WORLDS generative self-organisation [ Still Flow ] [ Method Singer ] [ Sojourn ] [ Arrivals ] [ FrankenstAIn ] [ Dimensions ] [ 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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