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Svetlana Maraš (1985) is a composer and sound artist working in the field of experimental music. 

Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. She is former head of Electronic Studio at Radio Belgrade.

Maraš regularly performs live electronic music and this is part of her ongoing practice. Conceived as a hybrid technological instrument, her setup is focused on unlocking the hidden creative potential of commercial, affordable devices, enabling virtuosic real-time manipulation of electronic sound. She prioritises time-specific and contextual performance over the recording format, which she approaches critically and uses only selectively.
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Her work strongly focuses on sound installations such as Jazz, which employ existing technologies to construct complex signal-chain ecosystems. She also builds custom instruments, like Tablebook, merging her interest in objects, circuitry, performative interaction (by others), and sculpture.

From 2016-2021, as composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. During that time, she developed works such as Jezik (shortlisted for Prix Italia award in 2017), Radio Concert No.1 and Radio Concert No.2 - live performances with the use of Synthi 100, as well as Post-excavation activities, the work which has brought her the most prestigious Serbian composition prize the “Mokranjac”, awarded by the Serbian Composers' Association in 2021.
She performed and presented her work internationally, at venues, festivals and events such as CTM (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Wien Modern,  International Music Institute (Darmstadt), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kunstmuseum (Basel), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Ruhr Triennale, House of Electronic Arts (Basel), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Heroines of Sound (Berlin), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka (Zagreb), ICMC (New York), ISEA (Dubai), Orpheus Institute (Ghent) and many other places. She was composer in residence at Bern Music Festival in 2025. As a guest lecturer she teaches at numerous institutions worldwide.

Svetlana Maraš was SHAPE artist for 2020. Since 2022, she is part of the Zürich Stadt - Music Commission.  Jury member of Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart since 2025.