Matto Zoppi is an Italian sound artist and performer based in Berlin.
Voice and language are his primary materials and tools of investigation – carriers of histories and unexpressed possibilities, often shaped by inherited dynamics of control and exposure. These themes are explored through performative practice and poetic writing, grounded in research on the phenomenology of voice and questions of orality.
Working with recorded voices, texts, field recordings, and on-site and studio experiments, he assembles and collides materials across different disciplines. Microphones, props, costumes, and gestures are considered dramaturgical instruments, as are the spaces and audiences that shape the meaning of the action while it unfolds. He is interested in the transformations of these materials and encounters, in the narratives their collision produces.
Current projects include Gewaltmonopol, a solo performance work using voice as the only medium to probe the power dynamics that negotiate between sound and language; Transformations, an ongoing audio series investigating vocal practices and their transformative power; and LIMP, a performance research on microphone gesturality and spatial listening. Recent collaborations include a sound score for Breacher at the Julia Stoschek Foundation with composer and vocalist Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk), and sound design for The (W)HOLE Project (Clusterduck × KiõR, Zürich, 2025). As one half of San Giorgio Cibernetico (Alberto Dubito Prize finalists, 2021), he released Attraverso un Ricominciare on the label Ruego in 2025. His debut solo work, Dedalo, was produced and broadcast by Fango Radio in 2023.
He currently performs in Tacet by Jacopo Giacomoni, directed by Silvia Costa, which premiered at Venice Biennale Teatro 2026.
He has performed for Julia Stoschek Foundation, OHM Club, Silent Green, Radialsystem Berlin, Errant Sound Berlin, NUB Project Space, Fondazione Morra Napoli, Emilia Romagna Teatro, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, and Tempo Reale, among others. His work has appeared at Radiophrenia Festival Glasgow, On Air On Site Festival The Hague, Noods Radio Bristol, and Cashmere Radio Berlin.
Contact
mattozoppi (at) gmail (dot) com
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Voice and language are his primary materials and tools of investigation – carriers of histories and unexpressed possibilities, often shaped by inherited dynamics of control and exposure. These themes are explored through performative practice and poetic writing, grounded in research on the phenomenology of voice and questions of orality.
Working with recorded voices, texts, field recordings, and on-site and studio experiments, he assembles and collides materials across different disciplines. Microphones, props, costumes, and gestures are considered dramaturgical instruments, as are the spaces and audiences that shape the meaning of the action while it unfolds. He is interested in the transformations of these materials and encounters, in the narratives their collision produces.
Current projects include Gewaltmonopol, a solo performance work using voice as the only medium to probe the power dynamics that negotiate between sound and language; Transformations, an ongoing audio series investigating vocal practices and their transformative power; and LIMP, a performance research on microphone gesturality and spatial listening. Recent collaborations include a sound score for Breacher at the Julia Stoschek Foundation with composer and vocalist Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk), and sound design for The (W)HOLE Project (Clusterduck × KiõR, Zürich, 2025). As one half of San Giorgio Cibernetico (Alberto Dubito Prize finalists, 2021), he released Attraverso un Ricominciare on the label Ruego in 2025. His debut solo work, Dedalo, was produced and broadcast by Fango Radio in 2023.
He currently performs in Tacet by Jacopo Giacomoni, directed by Silvia Costa, which premiered at Venice Biennale Teatro 2026.
He has performed for Julia Stoschek Foundation, OHM Club, Silent Green, Radialsystem Berlin, Errant Sound Berlin, NUB Project Space, Fondazione Morra Napoli, Emilia Romagna Teatro, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, and Tempo Reale, among others. His work has appeared at Radiophrenia Festival Glasgow, On Air On Site Festival The Hague, Noods Radio Bristol, and Cashmere Radio Berlin.
Contact
mattozoppi (at) gmail (dot) com
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ SoundCloud
︎︎︎ YouTube