Clara Cozzolino
Clara Cozzolino (b.1996) is an Italian artist based in Amsterdam whose practice develops through movement, sound, and artistic research. Working across electroacoustic composition, modular synthesis, improvisation, and performance, she approaches sound not only as an acoustic phenomenon, but as a material capable of generating space, relationships, and ways of perceiving.
Originally trained as a contemporary dancer, she has gradually expanded her practice towards composition and sound art, developing a language in which body and sound do not accompany one another but continuously shape and transform each other.
Her research centres on listening, generative systems, spatial sound, and the perceptual dynamics that emerge through embodied experience. It has been further shaped through her studies at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, as well as through her ongoing Deep Listening Teacher Certification, rooted in the practice developed by Pauline Oliveros.
After graduating from DAF Dance Arts Faculty in Rome, she performed and performs in works by choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Christof Loy, Robin Nimanong, Sara Europaeus, while shifting her focus towards composition, choreography and direction. Since then, she has created original scores for dance, theatre, film, and multidisciplinary performances, collaborating with artists and institutions across the Netherlands and internationally, including ICK Amsterdam, Korzo Theater, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and O’Festival.
Her current artistic research, with(in)youHer current artistic research, with(in)you,
serves as the primary framework through which she investigates listening, movement, modular synthesis, sonic gesture and perception as open, evolving processes of artistic inquiry.
materiality of sound :: echoes of movement :: score blurring