Marta Zapparoli is an Italian sound and radio artist, composer, performer, improviser, and independent researcher based in Berlin. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, fine arts in Verona, soprano saxophone, and trained as a sound technician. Active in sound art since 2003, her main investigation is in the electromagnetic environments through the use of antennas (some self-built), radio receivers, detectors, tape machines and self-made recordings of natural and technological electromagnetic radiations.
Her work investigates “Technological Nature” and other-than-human voices within the Anthropocene through performances, compositions, and site-specific projects. Since 2010 she is core member of Berlin’s Splitter Orchester, and collaborates internationally in electro acoustic music, free improvisation: She has performed at festivals such as CTM, MaerzMusik, Atonal, Darmstadt, LisboaSoa, and Borealis, A L’ARME!, Osillations, LEM, Musraramix, ArtAct, among others. Her work has been broadcast by WDR3, SWR2, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RTS.ch, RAI3 Battiti.
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Marta Zapparoli
