frame from video by Nicolas Wiese ,Kindl Brauerai sound intervention 2015




" Without the sound from the outside world I cannot create my music, it is an endless of informations which stimulate my imagination, creativity, awareness, allowing me to enter into boundless territories.
All my work and research is dedicated to my father Giuseppe Zapparoli aka GiZap, He was a self-taught musician, singer song writer and composer which has always supported my ideas, research and music in many ways " 
Here his music:  https://soundcloud.com/gizap
 

About :

Marta Zapparoli is an Italian experimental sound artist,improviser,performer, self-taught researcher coming from the musical underground scene of Bologna. She was educated in fine arts and soprano saxophone at the early age of fifteen. During her studies in fine art she was also very much active in experimental theater, dance, performance and radio.


In 2000 she shifted her interest towards experimental music - noiseand became together with Giancarlo Bianchini the founder of (Hotelnuclear)collective. From 2007 she lives and works in Berlin, continuing todevelop her solo project focused on detection,recordings of acoustic ecology, field recordings, noise pollution, EMF. From 2014 she moved her interest and research into a new ongoing project called: "The unknown beyond" based on the exploration, interception and recordings around the world of radio wavesphenomena, man-made noise signals (electro-smog), and natural radio(electromagnetic signal emissions which originate from natural phenomena). 
To explore those phenomena,she researching into physic,electromagnetism,history of radio technology,energies,universe,consciousness,antennas.
In the past 13years she works in sound artbecoming one of the most interesting sound artist working with radical technology employing a wide range of techniques and equipment in her work, using: microphones, sensors, ultrasonic, analog and digitaltools, some of them self-built and from 2014 alsoantennas, radio receivers,detectors.


ARTISTIC STATEMENT 
"We are living in an immersive, complex polluted environment,a large part of which is an inaudible sonic web: signals and noises that spread and propagate through space and through our bodies without our realizing it. ( Radio waves can have biological and environmental side effects which may harm the activity or balance of human and animal life: any sound that our ears have not been built to filter may cause problems within both the body and psyche.) But these ineffable radio waves can also serve as a model for what we move through on a daily basis - the realities of our political, social and economic worlds. These realities can sometimes be difficult to understand, to ascertain, to talk about - but they too move through our bodies as we navigate the world. They become the experiences which I try to voice.



Having worked for many years with the acoustic ecology, noise pollution and vibration sound, I changed my way of listening, tried to find sounds by breaking and interrupting the usual/predictable moving trajectories within and between spaces, as well as through different methods of spatial and temporal definition/reduction of the recording area, to listen to acoustic pollution and to be able to extrapolate properties and useful parts of the noise source during my out door recordings .


My personal experience and awareness throughout the recording process and time and place is fundamental for the development of my research. The selected moments and spaces I have recorded, all interrelate through this process.In my performance I'm working with analogue media.
 Analogue phonography has led to some sort of metallurgy of sound, made sound malleable and mutable and this fits her working method so well . With digital sound processing, this is not possible.
 

During my performance I utilize analogue tape recorders and reel to reel tape machines due to the significance of the physicality, risk and potential imprecision involved, the different impact and freedom of handling which these machines can offer; the background noise , the rough sound, its chemical-physical characteristic, her particular love, the trait of the magnetic tape to change quality after longtime use, the different quality of listening , particularly in the low-end frequencies for instance.
There is a certain warmness in the bass, and the lack of digital compression allows for a more realistic sense of dynamics and space. The sound quality of the tape reflects the vision of sound, the idea of materiality that She have towards the sonic environment of the outside world.
 

The way I work with sound and noise is a rough handling and assembly of the recorded material transformed into strongly narrative sonic pieces through improvisation with real-time tape manipulation as scratch, back and forth, cutting, mixing producing rough sounds.
For instance, when I scratch on tape, beyond separate forms, there is a continuous development of form, and beyond variable matter, a continuous variation of matter, in short to bring out the life proper to matter.

 

Through live performances, this sound material is transformed and placed into other contexts and consequently trying to maintain its original character by creating a distinct aurality and awareness of the sonic reality and its hidden spectral voices."
 


Marta was extensively featured on WDR3 Open Studio Elektronische Musik Deutschland (2011), ZDF TV (2012), and a variety of experimental radio broadcasts. In 2006 she received the MOVIN-UP Award for her field recording project (An Audio Portrait of Berlin). She was giving a lecture with live performance about Her new ongoing project at Sound Studies(Mapping The Field) 2ndInternational Conference of the European Sound Studies Association(2014) Copenhagen, at Goucher College Computer Music in Baltimore (2016). 
She released solo albums on : Zeromoon.rec , Idiosyncratic rec. and split releases ,collaborations on: Spina rec, Microtone rec , Gagarin Rec, Urban Art rec, Nohmand rec.  
She did residences at : EMS (Stockholm), AIR program Krems (Austria), Air program DAR , Druskininkai in (Lithuania).

She performed around in Europa,Turkey,USA,UK.   

Beside her solo work, Marta is a member of (Splitter Orchester) in Berlin and she has several ongoing collaborative projects with musicians,singers,dancers. 







FOR BOOKING CONTACT : xpenelopex@gmail.com  





UP COMING CONCERTS & FESTIVALS & 

ARTIST RESIDENCY 2018


21-25 August 2018
Concert with Splitter Orchester 
@ M�T�O - MULHOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018
Mulhouse , ( France)

31 August 2018
Concert with Splitter Orchester + Felix Kubin
@ Heimathafen/ Kontroklang Festival 2018
Berlin , (DE)

5 October 2018
Solo performance
@ AHEAD - Festival for electronic music 2018
Vilnius (Lithuania)

28 October 2018
Concert with Splitter Orchester and Ensemble Mozaic
(Public People)
@ Radial System
Berlin, (DE)

30 October 2018
Concert with THE ELKS 
@ House of Art GVUO
Podebradova 1291/12,
Ostrava, (Czech Republic)

1 November 2018
Solo performance - Composition for radio wave 2018 :"Sonata per Eterna"
@Noche de Los Muertos (Un-Tape Me)
in coproduction with Wien Modern and Echoraum 
Institut 5haus, Vienna ( Austria)  

2 November 2018
Concert with THE ELKS 
@ Alternativa Festival 2018
Prague, (Czech Republic)

22 November 2018
Performance with Pareidolia - "SONIC AFFECTS" composition
@ EAVESDROP Festival 2018
Musikbraueri , Berlin (DE)

7 December 2018
Solo performance- Composition for radio wave:"Sonata per Eterna"
@ HEROIN OF SOUND Festival 2018
HAU2 , Berlin (DE)

12 December 2018
Premiere --Duo performance with Yannick Franck (N�GATIV�ON)
@T.B.A
Brussels, (Belgium)   


UP COMING CONCERTS 2019

 

8 February  2019

Performance PAREIDOLIA duo with Liz Allbee
@ EAR WE ARE Festival
Biel,(Austria)  

25 February 2019

Performance with Pareidolia duo with Liz Allbee
@Labor Sonor
Berlin, (DE) 

12-15 September 2019

Concert with CIRCUIT TRAINING assemble
@TBA
Zoglau (Germany)

24-27 October 2019 

Performance with Sabine Vogel
@TBA
Potsdam,(DE)  

22-23-24 November 2019

Concert with Splitter Orchester
Splitter Festival 2019
@TBA
Berlin, (Germany)



 





Ongoing Projects


Splitter Orchester from 2010 
http://www.berlinsplitter.org/  

THE ELKS from 2015 with : Liz Allbee - Kai Fagaschinski - Billy Roisz 
http://www.lizallbee.net/pagesfolder/Elks.html

PareiDoliA with the musician Liz Allbee from 2016
https://soundcloud.com/user-235196343

Duo with Alessandra Eramo,from 2011 
http://eramo-zapparoli-duo.blogspot.de/




CIRCUIT TRAINING V   from 2015

https://zangimusic.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/circuit-training/ 

Duo with Emilio Gordoa from 2016 :
https://zapparoligordoa.wordpress.com/
 

TOWA with JulieRousse from 2012
https://towaduo.wordpress.com/  

Duo with Billy Roisz from 2015
http://qujochoe.org/radikal-destruktion/




Duo with Alessandra Eramo,from 2011 
http://eramo-zapparoli-duo.blogspot.de/




PXPRD with Martin Kuentz
https://soundcloud.com/pxprd 





TAPE BOARD 2015

This project it is a working in progress of building DIY tape boards, to create a book of inaudible sound recordings printed on it .Physical expansion of the sound material, where the playing time and manipulation no longer depends from the machine but from direct physical and psychological approach of the performer.
Tape Board,it is an investigation on the listening process to the sound material that turn it into pure tactile matter .
Tape Board it is manually played with extended head, during my performance.      





                  Tape Board 2015 premier,with XNAME
              performance at Sonorities Festival,London









                                 




PAST Projects & Collaborations 


Spectral Vortex with Eleonora Oreggia (XNAME) 2015
https://soundcloud.com/tags/spectral-vortex 


Electroacustic ensemble
http://downtownmusic.net/marta-zapparoli/ignaz-schick-electroacoustic-ensemble-08-10-2013#image50 



2009 Project with Yann Keller & Kenneth Hyttel(HappyHerpes)

2007-2009 Project with David Opetit 
(Les coulees succulentes collecttive)

2007 Collaboration with Francesco Arena

2001-2007 Founder with Giancarlo Bianchini of(HotelNuclear)collective

2003-2005 with Elena Skoko(2b1c)electronic poetry

2004 Collaboration with Norma Jeane




Playing with...

LAFM band, MATMOS band,Paul Lovens, Toshimaru Nakamura, Matthias M�ller, Werner Daffeldecker, Ignaz Schick, Jeff Surak(Zeromoon records), Burkhard Beins, Vinyl Terror&Horror, Martin Howse, Sabin Vogel, Johannes Bergmark, Arnaud Riviere, Mario De Vega, Rinus Van Alebeek, Olivia Pils, Alejandra Perez Nunez, JD Zazie, , Paul Hubweber, Christian Wolfarth, Wendelin Buechler, Claiton Thomas, Lucio Capece, Kruno Jost, PanTone, Eliad Wagner, Emilio Gordoa, Klaus K�rvers, Helmut Lemke, Liz Albee, Steve Heather, Andrea Neumann, Zeena Parkis, John Duncan, LAFM band , Billy Roisz,George Lewis,Richard Skott,Hanna Hartman,Anais Tuerlinckx,Jackie Stweart and more.....    

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SELECTED PHOTOS OF RECORDINGS















 Recordings in forest and on the river during my residency in Lithuania06-2017 
        Loop antenna, VLF,VHF receiver, Radio waves 














       Out door recordings in NEW YORK (February 2017) with
                             VHF - wide band - receivers 

                                 Out door recordings with VLF loop antenna 
                    during my residences at Krems (Austria) 2017




                                  Out door recordings with VHF reciver 
                  during my residences at KREMS,(Austria) 2017







                       Out door recordings with Logarithmic wide band detector
                  + loop EM antenna, Crez , Croatia 08.2016



     Out door recordings with Radio world wide reciver, air comunication,                             thelegraph,navy,  Crez , Croatia 08.2016









 Out-door recordings with Logarithmic wide band detector 
(Cemetary Crematorium,Berlin 2016)



 
                    Out-door recordings with VLF Loop Antenna 
                         (tempelhofer feld,Berlin 2015)







            Recordings @ Balfron tower ,London 2015



    Light & Shadows recordings 2015 with : solar cells - device - recorder





                  Recordings with Logarithmic wide band detector, Vienna 2014




     



  Diving-recordings with self build hydrophone, Cres 2014, photo by Mario Figallo







       Ultrasonic detector microphone,recorder, Italy 2014


             Hydrophone,pre amplifier,recorder 2014












              Long session recording, vibrations of Fire-works
 (4 sensor microphones - amplifier - recorder) 2013





TEUFELSBERG,Long session Recording days and nights, Berlin 2010 - 2011





 
 Recordings Around 2009


photos during 2013 recordings by Martin Kuentz 












                 Photo by Martin Kuentz 2013 







Radio:
Radio Interview at "Green tea Berlin" 2018, by Krista Krull on: 
https://soundcloud.com/krista-krull/marta-zapparoli

with Pareidolia project2017:
https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/jazz/swr2-nowjazz-im-windkanal/-/id=659242/did=20383052/nid=659242/sdpgid=1483764/1e7mppl/index.html 


DATCHA  radio broadcast for the sound art festival 2017 plus intwrview in Berlin

Broadcast Radio Art 106FM (Tel Aviv)56 minutes about my sonic word.2017 by Meira Asher at https://www.facebook.com/kol.hacampus/
http://www.106fm.co.il/ 

Broadcast TCFSR radio 2017 :
http://www.tcfsr.net/the-comfy-show-february-2017

Interview and sound on reeboot.Fm
 
http://reboot.fm/2015/10/11/musical-drama-50-marta-zapparoli-%E2%80%93-highly-evocative/

Kboo Radio FM , program (Lost and found), Portland USA interview and live duo with Jackie Stewart 2016
https://www.kboo.fm/media/52429-marta-zapparoli-jackie-stewart-duo-radio-lost-and-found 
2015
broadcast on KOWS-FM
http://nopigeonholesexp.podomatic.com 

Broadcast on Musica Dispersa record
sonica.fm


WDR3 Radio Cultur Deutchland 

Release:

Duo Zapparoli/Gordoa and slit tape and digital release/Deconstruction of the Hunger State of Mind by SPINA rec 2017:
 https://spinarec.bandcamp.com/album/split-21

With THE ELKS band  / Bat English /Tape 2017: 
https://theeelks.bandcamp.com/releases

with Splitter Orchester / Felix Kubin / Shine on you crazy diagram/
LP , digital by Gagarin rec 2017: 
https://gagarinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shine-on-you-crazy-diagram

With Splitter Orchester/George lewis / CD by Microton rec 2017 :
 http://www.mikroton.net/recordings/index.php/catalog/mikroton-cd-50/

Duo Release with Richard Scott 2016
https://soundanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/hyphae 


https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/unexplained-sounds-group-the-first-annual-report      (compilation 2015 with an unedited track by my new release working in progress 2016)

UNEXPLAINED SOUND Compilation "The first annual report"
net release 2015
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/unexplained-sounds-group-the-first-annual-report 
 
TOWA(Julie Rousse & Marta Zapparoli) /Thunderstorms Instead of Sunshine/ Tape & digital 2014/


Chaotic Alterations/Marta Zapparoli/ 2015/ Idiosyncratics/ Tape 2014 - idcs004
http://idiosyncratics.limitedrun.com/products/526812-marta-zapparoli-chaotic-alterations 

Compilation/ MERZBOW - A Sonic Tribute From Berlin /Urban Art Record/ Net release 2013
http://urbanartsberlin.bandcamp.com/album/merzbow-a-sonic-tribute-from-berlin

Museruole Compilation 2013 / [Women In Experimental Music]/Net 2013
http://museruole.tumblr.com/ 
 
CODEX / Marta Zapparoli/2012/ Zeromoon/ Tape & Net 2012 - Zero113
http://zeromoon.com/releases/marta-zapparoli-codex-zero133/

DEAD TREES VOL I / Marta Zapparoli & Varius Artists/ 2012/ NOHMAD/ 2012, Nohmad016 
http://www.nohmad.net/html/netlabel_nohmad016-

Live at Able Gallerie/ Marta Zapparoli/ 2012/Audition Records /Net 2012  Ar067

A Fragment of Melodie / Marta Zapparoli/ 2010/ Idiosyncratics/ Net 2010
https://soundcloud.com/idiosyncratics-label/marta-zapparoli-a-fragment-of-melody?in=idiosyncratics-label/sets/various-netreleases-1



Interview:

2018

http://www.furious.com/perfect/martazapparoli.html 

Radio Max , interview by Krista Krull (Berlin)
https://soundcloud.com/krista-krull/marta-zapparoli


Datcha radio (Sound art festival) live plus interview in Berlin 

2017
Digital in Berlin 2016
http://11plus3.de/page/2/ 

https://vimeo.com/65310262

http://www.auditionrecords.com/ar067.php

Link ZDF TV program:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1668250/Bauerfeind-am-24.-Juni?bc=sts;sta#/beitrag/video/1668250/Bauerfeind-am-24.-Juni



Press - review:

2017
 
with The Elks (This is not an ant)album release 2017 Mikroton Rec.
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/165117031420/dust-volume-3-number-12 
  
http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=1992

2015

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/the-best-noise-music-in-september-marta-zapparoli-compactor-hive-mind-7719369

http://raisedbygypsies.blogspot.de/2015/03/cassette-revew-marta-zapparoli-chaotic.html

http://www.thenewnoise.it/marta-zapparoli-chaotic-alterations/

http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/marta-zapparoli-chaotic-alterations.html

http://www.thenewnoise.it/marta-zapparoli-chaotic-alterations/

http://feminatronic.com/tag/marta-zapparoli/


2012

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/12/ten_best_noise_tracks_2012.php?page=3


2011
 
http://www.actsofsilence.com/album-review/noise-as-a-habit/







VIDEO
Solo performances

Excerpt solo live @Ausland, Berlin 2017
Venue by Row Chicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztea-4ay3oQ&feature=youtu.be


Excerpt live @ Simultan Festival, Timisoara 2015
 




 Live action @ Die Destruktion night at NK , Berlin 16.01.2015 
 CREDIT : Filmed & Edited by Emilie Salqu�bre 
          more infos on : http://diedestruktion.tk



 


Live @ Occulto Fest , Westgermany, Berlin 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLK8BIR4-Lk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWhAojpzGM

credit : http://chelovekvsobake.tumblr.com/



Live in Philadelphia @Fire Museum 2013







QUOTA;UNQUOTA 14.04.2013
Live by Marta Zapparoli

Curated by Philip Morris
Video by J�r�mie Pujau
Produced by Audition Records and Salon Bruit

https://vimeo.com/64724581


Quiet Que 23.02.2013
Sound Installations:  �Modulation I�(2013)? Live-Performance by Burkhard Beins (re-make re-module)
Live-Remix-Solo by Marta Zapparoli aka Penelopex

http://vimeo.com/62619087




                                             

Solo perfromance in Zagreb 2008 @ KZET