Lou Mallozzi

Lou Mallozzi is a sound artist who makes installations, performances, works for CD and broadcast, improvised music, sound design for cinema and media installations, drawings, visual installations, and other projects. He regularly collaborates with other artists and musicians – these have included Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Hal Rammel, Gustavo Matamoros, Charlotte Hug, Michael Vorfeld, Mats Gustafsson, Alessandro Bosetti, Antonia Contro, Sandra Binion, Carlos Zingaro Alves, and many others. He has received grants and residencies to pursue his work, including four Illinois Arts Council fellowships; a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in Italy; Artist-in-Residence positions at Harvestworks New York, Spritzenhaus Hamburg, and the City of Lucerne; and faculty grants from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mallozzi is co-founder and executive director of Experimental Sound Studio, a nonprofit sonic arts organization in Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.