Marta Zapparoli is an Italian sound artist, performer, musician and improviser. She lives in Berlin since 2007.
After studying studied fine arts and soprano saxophone, Marta became increasingly involved in the production of experimental radio shows, installations and multimedia theater, over the years she has developed an extremely consistent body of work as a solo performer and improviser. In addition Marta Zapparoli takes part in several duo projects and collaborations playing with Matmos, Martin Kuentz (as PXPRD), Alessandra Eramo , Julie Russe and Berlin all stars project Splitter Orchester, that features Axel Dorner, Sabine Vogel, Claiton Thomas,Clear Cooper, Liz Albee,Burkhard Beins, Mario De Vega, Ignaz Shick and more.
She received the MOVIN-UP Award 2006 for her field recordings based project An Audio Portrait of Berlin and took part at several international festivals such as: Internationale Festival für Neue Musik Festival (Damstädt), Biegungen Bend/Break Festival (Berlin), Simultan Festival (Timisoara), SpektroOpen Festival (Istambul), Fusion Festival (Berlin), Das Kleine Field Recording Festival (Berlin) among others in Germany and all over Europe.
Her music mainly consists in strongly narrative sonic pieces that she builds using a wide variety of recording techniques and custom analog tools (from lo-fi to hi end electronic) as well as found instruments and objects.
Her sonic explorations bring together the organic quality of real-world sound and the versatility of live electronic processing. Although it could be qualified as abstract, Zapparoli's music reveal an accurate sense of narrativity. Her soundscapes, built using real-time tape manipulation, home made electronic devices and recordings of sounds that are considered non-musical or overheard are usually qualified as dense, tense & strongly emotional.
She Released several albums on Umbrella Noise records, Idiosyncratics, Audition Records, Nohmad Records and Zeromoon. She was also extensively featured WDR3 open studio elektronische musik Deutschland , and a variety of experimental radio broadcasts.
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