Mia Zabelka

Mia Zabelka is an Austrian violinist, vocalist, composer and sound artist working across electroacoustic improvisation and experimental music. Trained in classical violin and composition in Vienna, she has expanded her instrument's acoustic possibilities through preparations, amplification, custom electronics and extended techniques, exploring the physical relationship between gesture, space and sound.

Her practice of automatic playing treats spontaneous physical movement as the source of evolving musical structures. Zabelka has worked with artists including Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and John Zorn and appeared internationally at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Wien Modern, CTM and FIMAV. She founded Klanghaus Untergreith, an interdisciplinary centre for sound art in southern Styria, and has directed the PhonoFemme festival in Vienna.

On Creative Sources, Mia Zabelka is credited on Monday Sessions (CS320) and Köln 60 (CS890).