Sound Artist: Lia Mazzari

Lia Mazzari is a collaborative sound artist and performer who experiments with out-of-the-ordinary settings to attract new audiences. Lia’s study focuses on how sound, body, and place interact, exploring how communities, geography, and architecture influence artistic practise. She is intrigued by how a place’s politics, acoustics, memories, and audiences interact to shape it. Live performances, sound installations, and urban interventions are all a part of her practise, which blurs the lines between public and private as well as site and non-site. She utilises extended cello and whip methods as well as the broader idea of sound in space, representing her fluid relationship with the environment and dedication to sonic activism.
In addition, Lia was a part of the development of the experimental performance venue “Silver Road” and she still performs sonic interventions and makes site-specific responses all over the world. She has worked and performed with well-known musicians, and she is a member of Al Fresco, a recent gathering of artists.

Music review：

Both realistic and inventive, Lia’s work is excellent. Real in the sense that it captures a true-to-life moment from daily life. What makes Lia’s work innovative is how she has learned to portray a scenario through photography by finding something in these ordinary lives that is interesting and worth preserving. In other words, she has a talent for letting the city speak for itself and for highlighting its distinctive features. Her voice is extremely distinctive, and the urbanised settings and specific place give the listener a unique, exclusive, geo-inspired experience. However, because of her works’ lived-in and urban nature, listeners are often not able to reaffirm the neglected value of everyday life through the performance of her work.
Besides, her unusual choice of whip sound is very noteworthy, which is quite original.