venerdì 4 novembre 2011



photo by Mario De Vega - AUSLAND 11.11.11 Berlin



Marta Zapparoli aka Penelopex 





Marta Zapparoli is an Italian exsperimental sound artist, improviser , performer, musician . She received the MOVIN-UP Award 2006 for her field recordings based project An Audio Portrait of Berlin. 
She lives in Berlin since 2007.

After studied fine arts and soprano saxophone, Marta became increasingly involved in the production of experimental radio shows, installations and multimedia theatre, 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 XPRD), 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 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 nativity, her soundscapes, built using real-time tape manipulation, home made devices and 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.



 
photo by Marta Zapparoli during recordings



WHAT IS ABOUT MY SOUND RESEARCH ! 

"The sounds and information around us, are from a variable and immersive environment. Some of these unwanted environmental sounds and signals are constant and repetitive. 
Particular compounds are invariably too low or high for the sensory human frequency response to detect, so are ignored by our cognition. Other, more audible sounds are not all handled by our everyday waking consciousness. 
These more than classical field recordings also contain low emv field, natural radio, weather phenomena, radio, wideband and wireless communication signals of all kinds which I utilize for my recordings, which can be picked up with multiple devices such as, ultrasound and VLF natural, self build contact microphones with preamplifier.
First of all, time of day and location play a influencing role in the recording of my sound-works, as does the technical equipment used.
A spontaneous tour through an urban or natural landscape inspired entirely by my feelings evoked by their surroundings embrace the natural and different energies of the environment.
My personal experience and awareness throughout the recording process is fundamental for the development of my research and the progressive evolution of future pieces. The selected moments I recorded all interrelate through this process. 

When I have an idea of the sound-scape I want to compose,during the live performance I improvise with combinations of recordings and real-time manipulation and mixing. The signals, sounds and noises from the real world are transformed in a surreal scape where the time, situations, spaces and locations are reinvented  from their original form creating a different horality and awareness ."
My sound research is a constant investigation related to noise pollution which disrupt the activity or balance of human life and also following Psycho-geography studies .
I draw my inspiration from the narratives and metaphors of a variety of impacts from different locations and situations. Particularly when lost in a city, you find yourself at the wrong end of the town and unforeseeable scenarios begin to unfold. These are often quite unique experiences within a certain period of time, landscape or corner of society. The process of recording can become playful when exiting your everyday boundaries, 
for example - home, to enter a more complex terrain where paradoxically features and structures are nullified, these may include: natural environments and urban architectural spaces, the silence and natural abandoned places, unpredictable movements, the noise of giant field, defective technology, misplaced animals, "dispunctuality", unforeseen natural sound effects or other cataclysms of nature and more...."
                       
by Marta Zapparoli 





                 Photo: by Martin Kuentz  




Collaborations

Splitter Orchester, Martin Kuentz, MATMOS, Alessandra Eramo, Kathrin Günter, Jeff Surak(Zeromoon records),Burkhard Beins, Vinyl Terror&Horror, Martin Howse,Sabin Vogel, Johannes Bergmark, Rinus Van Alebeek, Olivia Pils, Alejandra Perez Nunez, JD Zazie, Ignaz Schick, Paul Hubweber, Christian Wolfarth, Wendelin Buechler, Claiton Thomas, Lucio Capece, Julie Rousse, Kruno Jost, PanTone, Yann Keller, Kenneth Hyttel, David Opetit, Les coulees succulentes collecttive, Francesco Arena, Giancarlo Bianchini(Hotel Nuclear), Elena Skoko(2b1c),Norma Jeane.


Past Festivals

2012 Internationale für Neue Musik Festival, Damstädt(Germany)
     TaktFrei Festival, Berlin (Germany)
     kleine field recordings Festival, Berlin (Germany)

2010 Biegungen Bend/Break Festival,Berlin (Germany)
     Simultan Festival, Timisoara (Romania)
     Ohrenstrand Festival hauptbahnhof, Berlin (Germany)
     E25 Festival Artspace Rondeel, Maastricht (Nederland)

2009 International Noise Conference, Berli(Germany)

2008 Noise Festival KZET Zagreb (Croatia)
     SpektroOpen festival, Instambul (Turkey)
     Festival Der Ungewohnten Musik (Berlin)
     Noizemachinetourtruckersroadshow Festival,
     Copenhagen (Denmark)
     FRIV Polish-German Festival of Improvisation,   
     Poznan (Poland)

2007 Daskleinefieldrecordingsfestival (Berlin)
     Fusion Festival, AIr Field Larz (Germany)
     International Noise Summit, Frankfurt Main (Germany)
     Dienstbar-Festival, Berlin (Germany)
     Ler Soler Festival, Marseilles (France)

2005 FNAC, Torino (Italia)

2003 Distorsonie Festival, Bologna (Italy)
     Ladyfest, Hamburg MS Stubnitz (Germany)

2002 Ginnico Celeste Festival, Gambettola CESENA (Italy)




Radio:
 

Release:

http://zeromoon.com/releases/marta-zapparoli-codex-zero133/

http://www.nohmad.net/html/netlabel_nohmad016-

Dead%20Trees%20Vol%20I.html

http://www.idiosyncratics.net/netlabel.html

Interview:

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:

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


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






VIDEO


QUOTA;UNQUOTA 14.04.2013
Live by Marta Zapparoli

Curated by Philip Morris
Video by Jérémie 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 Live @Emitter19.Berlin 2012
                                          video by : Elena Ziegler

                                                              

Solo Live@Ausland.Berlin 11.11.11
                                      video by Seiji Morimoto


Live Zapparoli & Ezramo @Madame Claude 2012   video by Wendelin Büchler




                        Live PXPRD project Zapparoli & Kuentz
                         @ Simultan Festival Timisoara 2010



impro live@KSET Zagreb 2009


                        Video project Respiri - Sirio 2007
           A work by Francesco Arena    Sound Design by Marta Zapparoli


        
          



  FOR BOOKING CONTACT : xpenelopex@gmail.com  



2013 ---------------------- >
UPCOMING CONCERTS & FESTIVALS 

28 June
duo live with Julie Rousse
@ NK  Visual Audio Festival
Elsenstraße 52, Berlin

10 August
concert with ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE
A L'ARME! Festival 
@ Radialsystem ,Berlin


27-28 September 
conert with Splitter Orchester 
@ CRAK Festival Des Musiques Affranchies
église Saint Merry, Paris, France 

1 October 
Solo Live
@ Cafe Central
Borgval 14, Brussels  

3-4-5 October 
Solo Live 
@ Sonic Circuit Festival
Washington DC, US

6 October
Solo Live
@ Red Room
425 E. 31st Street, Baltimore USA

7 October
Solo live
@ Fire Museum  c/o Highwire Gallery 
2040 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia USA
 

6-7 December
concert presentation with Splitter Orchester

@ DAAD Festival 2013 
Berlin


 
2014 ----------------------->  CONCERTS & FESTIVALS  

17 March

concert with Splitter Orchester
@ Maerzmusik Festival 2014
Berlin

20-22 March 
concert with Splitter Orchester
@ Borealis Festival 2014
Bergen , Norway
 



 PAST -------------->
 CONCERTS & FESTIVALS


12 April
Solo Live + interview QUOTA;UNQUOTA
@ K77 Lichtblick Kino - SALON BRUIT
Kastanienalle 77, Berlin


31 January
solo live for Idiosyncratics lable night
@ Loophole
Boddinstrasse 60 ,Berlin

24 February
Live - remix solo from / sound installation by Burkhard Beins
@ Quiet Que ,Flughafenstr.38, Berlin

10 January 2013
Solo live
@ West Germany
Skalitzer Straße 133,Berlin

11 January 2013
Concert with Splitter Orchester
@ Marie Antoinette 
Holzmarktstr. 15-18 Berlin

14 December 2012
Duo project with Martin Kuentz
@ZKU – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Siemensstrasse 27 Berlin

1 September 2012
IMPROCIDE II @ N.K 
Elsenstr. 52/
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2 Berlin


20-21 July 2012
Concert with the Splitter Orchester + live with Matmos + Ignaz Schick
@ Darmstadt avangarde music festival
Darmstadt Germany


2 July 2012
duo with Martin Kuentz (PXPRD)@ Labor Sonor Cule 
Auguststraße 10 Berlin

22 June 2012
duo with Martin Kuentz(PXPRD)@Tapis Vert Gallery
Marseille FR

25 May 2012
solo live @ TaktFrei festival
Berlin

12 May 2012
duo with Martin Kuentz (PXPRD)@ Ausland
Lychener Straße 60 Berlin

23 April 2012
solo live + Martin Kuentz + Mario De Vega @ Experimontag
Madame Claude Luebbenerstr 19 Berlin

30 March 2012
solo live @ Naherholung Sternchen
Berolinastraße 7 Berlin

21 April 2012
Live @Köpi Kino Peliculoso
Köpeniker STr. 137 Berlin

9 March 2012
Impro with Vinyl Terror & Horror @ Tiefgrund
Laskerstrasse 5 Ostkreuz
http://tiefgrund-venue.jimdo.com/

25 February 2012

solo live
kleine field recordings festival @ Emitter19 studios
Kiefholzstrasse 19., Berlin

8 February 2012
solo live @ Fraction: Bruit event
KlickClub
landsberger allee 54 Berlin

30 January 2012
solo live @ Sucked Orange Gallery
Emserstr 91 Neükolln Berlin


 23 January 2012
Marta Zapparoli & Alessandra Eramo duo @ Experimontag 
Madame Claude Luebbenerstr 19 Berlin


26. Nov 2011
Concert with Splitter Orchester
WABE club 
Danzingerstr 101 Berlin

23 November 2011
solo live @ Able Gallery
Hobrechtstraße 28
Berlin


21.Sep.2011 um 23:05 Uhr
Penelopex sound work + interview on air in WDR 3 radio open Studio Elektronische Musik
curated by Björn Gottstein !

http://www.wdr3.de/open-studio-elektronische-musik/details/artikel/stromlinie-penelopex.html


23 Jun 2011 -  live with PXPRD at Imeno club
Imeno. Slovenja

22 Jun 2011 – live installation with PXPRD at Metelkovamenza
Menza Pri Koritu, Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana.
www.menzaprikoritu.org

22 May 2011 – live with Alessandra Ezramo @ Rassegna Sonic Slackers at Valentin Stüberl
Neükolln. Berlin
www.sonicslackerentertainment.blogspot.com

17 Jan 2011 21:30 – live with Alessandra Ezramo at Altes Finanzamt
Schönstedtstraße 7, Berlin – Neukölln

27 Nov 2010 – live with the “Splitter Orchester Berlin” at RADIALSYSTEM
Holzmarktstr 33,Berlin
www.ausland-berlin.de/splitter
www.radialsystem.de

26 Nov 2010 – live with Martin kuentz at “Ausland “ Biegungen Bend/Break Festival 2010
Lychenerstr 60.Berlin
www.ausland-berlin.de

12 Oct 2010 – solo live at  DIENSTBAR  Galerie ZeitZone
Adalbertstr. 79. Berlin-Kreuzberg


10 Oct 2010 - LIVE INSTALLATION At  SIMULTANFESTIVAL 2010 in Timisoara (Romania)
 info: http://www.simultan.org/ro/2010/photo-gallery/index.html#90
video:
http://vimeo.com/27902533
and here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMslLSC7xxQ&feature=channel_video_title



Saturday 4th September – 21:00 live with Alessandra Ezramo at Sowieso
Weisestraße 24,Berlin Neukölln

26 Aug 2010 –  concert with “ Splitter Orchester “ at hauptbahnhof Festival 2010
http://www.ohrenstrand.de/Ankunft_2010.htm

23 jun 2010   22:00 with PXPRD live set  at King Kong Klub
Berlin/Germany

5-6 Jun 2010  18:00-24:00  Live Installation at E25 Festival at Artspace Rondeel
Maastricht/NL

4 Jun 2010  21:00 -  Live-audio installation with PXPRD at ANTJE ÖKLESUND
Rigaer Straße 71/73, BERLIN/Germany

23 May 2010  21:30 Live Installation with Twilight Claps & Thunders
 at Madame Claude  Berlin/Germany

27 Mar 2010   21:00 – live with PXPRD at l’Entropy
1 rue Consolat 13001 Marseilles/FR

25 Mar 2010
  21:00 - live with PXPRD at l’Embobineuse
11 Boulevard Boués 13003 Marseille    

 20 Mar 2010  20:00 - with PXPRD at CarloLevi club
48 rue Saint Leonard - Liège/belgium Liège,

19 Mar 2010  21:00 at Muziekcentrum Kinky Star club
 Vlasmarkt 9  Gent /Belgium

18 Mar 2010  23:00 - live with PXPRD at "de barbaar"
kortrijksepoortstraat 215 Gent /Belgium

15 Dec 2009  22:00 - Frozen Sudhaus Live Installation with PXPRD at Kindlbrauerei
Berlin/Germany

23 Nov 2009   24:00 - Broadcasting Live Installation with PXPRD for Salon Bruit at Herbstradio.FM Berlin/Germany

14 Apr 2009 –  live with HappyHerpes at International Noise Conference at Wallywoods Gallery (Part II)
Wally Woods Gallery. Berlin
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.89294227577.105489.551302577&type=1

31 Jan 2009, 21:00 – live at loophole
Boddinstr. 60.Berlin

20 Dec 2008, 21:00 – live at Salon Petra
Hobrechtstr. 47 Berlin.

22 Nov 2008, 21:00 - Penelopex - Analog Suicide Live at Electronic Church
Greifswalder Straße 223, Berlin, DE

06 Nov 2008, 20:00 - solo live at KSET
 Zagreb /Croatia


22 Oct 2008, 20:00 -  live at SpektroOpen fest     
Istanbul

04 Oct 2008, 20:00 solo live at Noizemachinetourtruckersroadshow
Heke Heidestr - Doberitzer str./S-bahn hbf

28 Sep 2008, 15:00 - Penelopex + A?:xl live at "2. Festival der ungewohnten Musik"
Open air Berlin.

20 Sep 2008, 21:00 - Penelopex + A?:xl live+ Dr Nexus - vinyl terror & horror
WHITE RABBIT in SQUART

15 Aug 2008, 20:00 - Penelopex + A:xl live at Electronic Church     
Greifswalder Straße 223, Berlin, DE

18 Jul 2008, 20:00 – Penelopex live at Noizemachinetourtruckersroadshow festival
 Copenhagen, DK

06 Jul 2008, 20:00 -Penelopex live at FRIV -
FRIV Polish-German Festival of Improvisation, Poznan PL

28 Apr 2008, 21:00 - Penelopex live at Experimontag, Madame Claude
 Lübbener Str. 19, Berlin.

25 Apr 2008, 20:00 - C.Hilton /Promute /Penelopex at Total Artspace
Lenaurstr.5 Berlin.

30 Jan 2008, 21:30 - penelopex + giovanni de donà live SONIC WARGAMES at Maria Club
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33/34  Berlin.

26 Aug 2007, 20:00 - LIVE **les coulees succulents collective**
joint-venture#30, Zentrale Randlage e.V. Schönhauser Allee 172, Berlin, DE

02 Oct 2007, 21:00 - Live les coulees succulentes collective PenelopeX, DaviD*OpP, live
Antje Öklesund, Rigaer Straße 71/73, Berlin, DE

25 Oct 2007, 20:00 - Live les coulees succulents collecttive
Kita, Berlin, DE
http://www.k-ita.de

26 Oct 2007, 21:00 - Live Penelopex, C . Hilton, Marcelo Aguirre, Lars Feistkorn    
Salonbruit, Kastanienallee 77, Berlin, DE
http://k77.org
http://salonbruit.org

12 Dec 2007, 21:00 - Penelopex, Analog Suicide
Kaffee Schmidt, Schererstraße 11, Berlin, DE

23 Dec 2007, 17:00 - Audio Portrait of Berlin - live Presentation
La Fabbrica via carducci, 47035 Gambettola, Cesena, IT

24 Aug 2007, 22:00 - Live Les coulees succulents collective 
Salon Bruit, Kastanienallee 77, Berlin, DE
http://k77.org
http://salonbruit.org

10 Aug 2007, 19:00 -  Penelopex live with Rauschpartikel, Stephane Leonard
Staalplaat Record Store, Berlin, DE
http://daskleinefieldrecordingsfestival.org

30 Jun 2007, 01:30 - //" les culees Succulentes collective" PenelopeX // DaviD*OpP // EmaLoT live at Fusion Festival
http://fusion-festival.de
AIr Field Larz, DE

29 Jun 2007, 22:00  ////"Audio portrate of Berlin" field recording live set at Fusion Festival
http://fusion-festival.de
AIr Field Larz, DE

19 Jun 2007, 21:00 - International Noise Summit 2007 -
TANZHAUS WEST Gutleutstrasse. 294 FRANKFURT MAIN, DE

16 Jun 2007, 20:30 - Penelopex Live at Dienstbar-Festival
Martin-Luther-Kirche Fuldastrasse 50-51, Berlin, DE
http://dienstbar.info

09 Jun 2007, 20:00 - Live "les coulees succulentes collective "
DATA, Marseilles, FR


08 Jun 2007, 09:00 - live les coulees succulentes collecttive
 PenelopeX // DaviD*OpP // EmaLoT

14 March 2007, 21:00 - PenelopeX  live with Border Line Noise,
 WELTEMPFAENGER Disco Mafia, Genova, IT

20 Feb 2007, 21:30 - PenelopeX //EmALot / live
Electronic Church, Greifswalder Straße 223, Berlin, DE

28 Jan 2007, 20:00 - EmaLoT vs Rober U, DaviD*OpP, PenelopeX
joint-venture#25, Zentrale Randlage e.V. Schönhauser Allee 172, Berlin, DE

16 Jan 2007, 21:30 - Penelopex , EmALot Live
Antje Öklesund, Rigaer Straße 71/73, Berlin, DE

 31 Dec 2006, 22:00 - penelopex - Field Recordings Live Set
Wendel / NSPT, Schlesische Strasse 42, Berlin, DE
http:nspt.de


15 Dec 2006, 22:00 - " Audio Portrate of Berlin '06 – Penlopex live
Ausland - Lychener str.60, Berlin, DE
http://ausland-berlin.de
Supported by GAI - Associazione per il circuito dei
Giovani Artisti Italiani/ PROGRAMM MOVIN 'UP 2006


01 Dec 2006, 21:30 - EmaLot/ruber u penelopex Live
Wendel / NSPT, Schlesische Strasse 42, Berlin, DE
http:nspt.de

03 Nov 2006, 22:00 - penelopex - Field Recordings Live Set
Wendel / NSPT, Schlesische Strasse 42, Berlin, DE
http:nspt.de



Previous shows with 2B1C band 2003-2005

ZÜRICH (CH) 5/04/2003 World's End Gallery
BOLOGNA(IT) 12/04/2003 Distorsonie Festival, Link –
HAMBURG (DE) 22/08/2003
Ladyfest Hamburg MS Stubnitz
BOLOGNA (IT) 6/12/2003 Soniq TPO
BOLOGNA (IT) 13/05/2004 Modo Infoshop
FAENZA (IT) 24/09/2004 Museo
TORINO (IT) 13/03/2005 FNAC. Streaming: Radio Clapas, 93.5 FM
in Montpellier, France (www.babesinboyland.info)Radio K Centrale,
Bologna.



Exhibitions/sound lives and performances with Hotelnuclear from 2002 in Italy:
 
VIDIA (Cesena) 
NGDM (galleria a Ravenna) 
INDIE (Cervia) 
COX18(Milano) 
INTERZONA (Verona) 
WADADA (Rimini) 
GRATIS (Senigallia)
LINK (Bologna) 
COCORICO (Riccione) 
VELVET (Rimini)
RADIOESTENSIONI NIGHT (covo, Bologna) 
STREET RAVE PARADE
antiproibizionista Bologna 
ELETTRO+ (Firenze) 
Errata Corpora, event
organization and coordination by Channel83 
Ginnico Celeste Festival(Gambettola)CESENA
InfoModo book store (Bologna) 
L'Oreal Accademy, Act Out event/exibition (Roma).





 
Live performance @emitter studio 19 - Transmediale Vospiel Berlin 2013

          Photo: by Martin Kuentz
          Live-Performance @ QUOTA;UNQUOTA ,Salon Bruit Berlin 04.2013 
                               



  Recordings with underwater mic - detector - Croatia 2012


  Live performance @ Able gallery - Berlin 2011



             Live Performance @ RAUM 20 - Berlin 2010



     Live Performance @ KINKY STAR - Gent (Belgium)2010



             Live Performance @ Zaitone Gallery - Berlin 2010



             live Performance @ Kindl Brauerei - Berlin 2009






           Live  Performance @ Zentrale Randlage - Berlin 2007




  Live Performance @ KZET - Zagreb noise festival - 2009









                                       

lunedì 3 dicembre 2007

                            Impro. Live @ Zentrale Randlage in Berlin

domenica 16 settembre 2007

Collaborations

2b1c project 2002 -2004


             2b1c live @ World End in Zurich






with HOTEL NUCLEAR performance @ Imperfetto Space - Gambettola IT








                  Performance with HotelNuclear @ NGDM Ravenna IT



        with Church of Funck 1998 - 1999



 
Penelpex Performance @ LINK Bologna IT  1998

live with  les coulees succulentes collective 2006 - 2007
                                                                                     @Le Soler Festival - Marseilles





with HappyHerpes collective@ White Rabbit - Berlin 2008


           with HappyHerpes collective@ Chapelle Theater - Berlin 2008





                 with Kenneth Hyttel @LUX club - Berlin 2008





            with Martin Kuentz PXPRD project@ L'Bobineuse - Marseilles 2010




                        live installation @ Simultan Festival in Timisoara





with Splitter Orchester Berlin @ RADIALSYSTEM 2010


                 With Splitter Orchester @ WABE Club 2011





         With Splitter Orchester @ DARMSTADT festival Germany 2012





 
           Live with MATMOS band @ DARMSTADT festival Labor Elektronik 2012



      live with Ignaz Schick @ DARMSTADT festival Labor Elektronik 2012


photo by Tom Kindermann