A sound designer, musician, and multimedia artist from Croatia, Pelicarić is interested in the nature of the human apparatus, and all its specificities and irrationalities. His artistic work originates from the alternative and experimental scene of the 1990s in Split, when he founded the band Zidar Betonsky and actively engaged with the contemporary theatre and activist group Fraktal Falus Teatar. Holding a degree in sound engineering and a master’s degree in Media Arts, Pelicarić explores the physical characteristics of sound, striving to establish an intimate sonic environment, always in dialogue with the outside world.

During the Spatial Sound Residency in Rotterdam from 6 to 12 October 2025, Pelicarić will build on his work titled …to dear incomprehension, or the pieces of the personal waiting, performed live for the first time at the KONTEJNER’s Gibanja festival in Zagreb this year. Pelicarić will expand on the work and prepare it for the playback at the Listening Room sound exhibition programme at the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026.

Drawing from a database of sounds collected from previous experiments and research, the work reflects Pelicarić’s explorations of seemingly unrelated thoughts that verge on obsession. The pre-fixed sonic content is manipulated during the live performance through mixing, processing, and spatialisation, using physical objects as filters for processing. Embracing apophenia – the tendency to perceive connections between unrelated phenomena – Pelicarić seeks to create a synesthetic whole.