Lia Mazzari (b. Merano, Italy) is a sound artist and researcher working with open-source sound transmission technologies in environmental research as unique tools for alternative ‘live’ models of listening, responding to, and composing with more-than-human environments. Her solo and collaborative works span activist radio labs, cryospheric sound transmissions, whip cracking performances and experimental cello concerts. Recorded and ‘live’ events explore the relationship to sound and listening, often engaging environmental recording, voices, instrumentation, film, radio and most notably ecological live audio transmission methods.

Winner of an Oram Award in 2022, Lia was the founding producer of Silver Road, a drained water tank for time-based art practices in South-East London. She has developed works for Tate Modern/Britain (UK), Biennale Gherdeina (IT), Zone2Source Gallery (NL), South London Gallery (UK), Arnolfini (UK), V&A Dundee (UK), Messner Mountain Museum (IT), Q-02 (BE), BBC Radio 3, British School of Rome (IT), and  Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts (IN). She is currently an AHRC/Techne-funded PhD candidate at the Centre for GeoHumanities Royal Holloway, University of London.

Lia performed alongside Tarek Atoui, Ashley Paul, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Angharad Davies, Ilan Volkov, Christof Migone, David Toop, Sarah Davachi, Áine O’Dwyer, Maria Chavez, Sholto Dobie and Tom White. Recent projects also include an audio-visual performance project ‘panOrama’ with Kathy Hinde and Dali de Saint Paul and occasional ‘listening and radio’ collaborations with London based Soundcamp Cooperative. 

Link to short portfolio here