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Pitch Shifting (Grgur Savić & Sanja Star)
occupies a singular position at the intersection of improvisational sound, generative media, and material-digital hybridity. Unlike many experimental audiovisual projects, where pre-programmed systems dominate, they foreground live improvisation and gestural responsiveness as central drivers. Their performances are emergent systems, where acoustic instruments, live electronics, generative 3D visuals, and tangible materials, sensor-equipped objects, drawings, and wearable artifacts, coalesce in real time, creating immersive, unpredictable, and tactile experiences.
Our Approach
What sets Pitch Shifting apart is their ability to bridge human gesture with computational logic. Sound, media, and physical matter do not exist independently, they act on each other, forming a live dialogue that reveals the infrastructures of perception and the thresholds between material and immaterial, known and unknown.
Their practice is research-driven: each project investigates how audiences perceive, navigate, and experience emergent audiovisual systems. Improvisation functions as both method and medium, making every performance unique, alive, and responsive.
Pitch Shifting continues to expand into site-specific performances, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international residencies, exploring contexts where material, space, and computation converge. By emphasizing process over fixed composition, their work offers curators and institutions rare encounters with emergent audiovisual ecosystems, positioning the duo as leaders in a field that is simultaneously technologically sophisticated, conceptually rigorous, and viscerally human.
Performing Media
Pitch Shifting perform media itself, making visible the invisible dynamics of sound, gesture, and computation in ways that are unique and unmistakably contemporary.
Pitch Shifting at Klangforschung 3 “Get in the van”, Dresden, 2022
Pitch Shifting @ Containerklang #19 LTK4 CENTRE COURT FESTIVAL der Klangbasierten Künste, 2023 / photo Oliver Bedorf
Pitch Shifting at LPM Festival, Italy, 2021
Pitch Shifting at 6th Silk Road International Art Festival, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 2019
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OUTBOX: A Sonic Journey through Interaction and Visualization (EXPERIMENTS IN PERFORMANCE)
“In the urban white box, Pitch Shifting finds an experimental space, a retreat and also a space of contemplation for their audiovisual compositions.” Pitch Shifting
OUTBOX is an ongoing collaborative performance exploring the thresholds between sound, music, and visual media. Grgur Savić and Sanja Star create immersive, real-time environments where instruments, amplified objects, electronics, generative soundscapes, and live 3D visuals coalesce in constant interaction. Sound and image do not merely coexist—they act upon each other, forming emergent structures that evolve with each performance.
The work foregrounds improvisation and material-digital hybridity, extending acoustic instruments into spectral textures and making media itself a performative agent. OUTBOX invites audiences into a space where boundaries between media, perception, and presence blur, and where improvisation, computation, and materiality converge to generate unique, immersive, and unpredictable experiences.
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Seas of Mintaka: Navigating the cosmic soundscape
Seas of Mintaka draws its inspiration from the stars, with a particular focus on Mintaka, a key star in the Orion constellation. Symbolizing exploration and mystery, Mintaka serves as a metaphor for the journey embarked upon in this performance, an odyssey through both sound and visual experience.
Guided by Grgur Savic and Sanja Star, the audience is led through the cosmic “seas” of Mintaka, where each sonic wave is transformed into evocative, abstract visuals. Both artists engage deeply with frequency in their respective practices, creating an environment that reflects the complexities of the universe and its infinite phenomena.
Savic weaves an experimental blend of classical, IDM, and electroacoustic music, punctuated by moments of noise and dissonance, evoking the vast depths of space and the mysterious forces that shape the cosmos. In parallel, Star’s abstract visuals, crafted from digital motion collage, 3D art, coding, and live animation, respond to and mirror the soundscape, creating an immersive, audio-reactive visual experience.
Seas of Mintaka becomes a journey through unknown realms, where sound and image are navigational tools, guiding the audience into the uncharted territory of the cosmic unknown. Through the performance, each note and visual form becomes a step into the vastness of the universe, inviting reflection on the infinite and the unknown.
Grgur Savic – laptop, electronics, prepared saxophone Sanja Star – sonic illustration [laptop, projectors]
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INFILTRATION: A SONIC AND VISUAL EXPLORATION OF THE UNKNOWN
INFILTRATION unfolds as an immersive sensory encounter where live sound, extended instrumental techniques, and abstract 3D visuals converge to explore themes of intrusion, adaptation, and transformation. Drawing inspiration from deep space and the unknown, the performance constructs an ephemeral, emergent environment in which shifting sonic architectures and algorithmically responsive visuals form a constant dialogue.
Grgur Savić extends the acoustic properties of the saxophone through real-time digital processing, transforming timbre into spectral, unfamiliar textures. These sounds interact with Sanja Star’s performative media, where abstract forms materialize, dissolve, and collide within landscapes of shadow and illumination. Sound and image are not layered independently—they act upon each other, negotiating presence and absence, dissonance and harmony.
Set in near-total darkness, the stage becomes a fluid perceptual space, punctuated by intentional light that reveals fleeting glimpses of movement and form. INFILTRATION operates as a reflective, open-ended meditation on unseen forces, where sound, media, and gesture are agents of transformation, dissolving the familiar and inviting audiences into the unknown.
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