I completed my PhD studies in Ethnomusicology at FCSH of NOVA University, Lisbon, with the title: Healing, ritual, and change in the Amazon – Ethnomusicological study of chants among Peruvian Huni Kuin (2025). BA and MA in Tonmeister from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen (2015, 2018). BSc in Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at University of Ljubljana (2008). Two years at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as international scholar (2014-15, 2017-18).

I am currently a PhD Collaborator at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia– Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md). I recently concluded a project documenting Slovenian folk songs in collaboration with the Institute of Musicology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), funded by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture.

As an audiovisual ethnomusicologist I work at the intersection of art, ecology, and cosmology. My practice documents Indigenous and traditional chants—including those of my own Slovenian heritage—through high-fidelity sound and moving image, shaping them into immersive compositions that invite introspection and relational awareness. I approach this work through an autoethnographic framework attentive to the politics of representation.

My short documentary Nixi Pae Chants of the Peruvian Huni Kuin (2022), part of my PhD thesis, emerged from fieldwork among the Cashinahua in the Peruvian Amazon. Seeking to document their nixi pae (ayahuasca) chants, I found the practice nearly extinguished and recorded two of the last elder chanters before they passed away; the film traces this fragile legacy amid ongoing cultural transformation.

Before turning fully to academic research and filmmaking, I worked as a professional sound engineer at Radio Študent, one of Europe’s oldest independent radio stations, where since 2000 I have produced and hosted X Machina, a program tracing electronic music from early experimental forms to techno. I also worked in documentary sound production and postproduction at RTV Slovenia, developing skills in filming, editing, and sound design that now inform my ethnographic film practice.

I have conducted fieldwork in China, the Philippines, Morocco, Peru, Mexico, Ukraine, and Slovenia, and have presented my work at conferences of the International Council for Traditional Music, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, and the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. More recently, I have focused on urban ethnography, researching music and community-building in the Detroit metropolitan area.