About me

Hi! My name is Pilar Miralles and I was born in Almería (Spain) in 1997. I am a sound artist and researcher based in Helsinki (Finland). I speak Spanish, English, and a decent French. You can find my artist statement and short bio in the home page.

Education

• Doctoral researcher (Arts Study Programme) at DocMus Doctoral School of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland, ongoing)
• Preparatory doctoral researcher at DocMus Doctoral School of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland, 2024)
• Master of Music in Composition at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland, 2022)
• Master’s Degree in Electroacoustic Composition at "Centro Superior Katarina Gurska” of Madrid (Spain, 2020)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Composition at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music “Victoria Eugenia” of Granada (Spain, 2019)

Ongoing research

Listening as remembrance: An autoethnography of presence in the age of disposability

Listening as remembrance is an artistic research project, meaning that my artistic doings are my main means of inquiry. In this research, I explore how the practice of remembering can contribute to regaining a deeper awareness of the time and place we inhabit, despite our embeddedness in a world of disposable nature. Being framed by sensorial autoethnography, this exploration resorts to listening as a means to retrieve, reimagine, and resignify memory. Listening (and what is listened to, that is, sound) is understood here beyond its conventional meaning, following Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of "listening as making sense". The ultimate objective of the project is to understand how we can make sense of and bestow value on things (objects, places, practices) through the acknowledgment of both their constant creation and deletion in our fast world, and their capacity to remain through our memory. The images, sounds, voices, and materials collected from my own practice of remembering in my homeland, in rural Southeastern Spain, are collectively recalled through a series of three multimedia installations in which I invite the audience to further engage with their own remembrances.