Pilar Miralles is a Spanish composer, sound artist, and researcher based in Helsinki. She’s preoccupied with how the rapidity of progress might render our relationship with the world shallow and obsolete. Her artistic activity focuses on situated practices that seek to restore a deep awareness of our reality and a sense of belonging to it, especially through the retrieval and resignification of memory. She is currently extending her practice to video filming, field recording, and site writing, finding in installation art a solution for the processual and open-ended nature of her work.
Pilar holds a Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition from Centro Superior “Karatina Gurska” of Madrid and a Master’s Degree in Composition from the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. She is currently conducting doctoral artistic research at DocMus Doctoral School, focusing on situated artistic practice as a source of presence. She has recently carried out compositional projects at the ULYSSES Network around Europe (2023-24) and SPAIN arts & culture in the US (2024). Following the First Prize she was awarded at the XXXIV Young Composers Award Fundación SGAE-CNDM, she is the composer in residency of Juventudes Musicales de España during the 2024-25 season and collaborates as an invited artist in the cycle SECUENCIAS of the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia of León (Spain).