Sara Persico is a sound artist, composer and performer from Napoli (south of Italy) whose work centres on voice, analog electronics and field recordings.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Voice and Performance from the Conservatory of Napoli (2012) and a Master’s Degree from the Conservatory of Bologna (2015). Sara has participated in numerous artist residencies, including Tempo Studio (Lisbon, 2018), Amplify Berlin (2021), Summersessions (Argentiera, 2022), Goethe Institut (Beirut, 2023), MusicBoard Berlin (Kampala, 2023), and Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, 2024).
Her performances have been featured at prominent festivals and venues such as Berlin Atonal, documenta fifteen, Ballroom Blitz Beirut, CTM Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Ormside Projects, Dancity Festival, and Santarcangelo Festival.
She has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including performing with Evelyn Saylor’s vocal ensemble for Caterina Barbieri’s light-years at Rewire Festival and London’s Southbank Centre, and working with artists like Elvin Brandhi, Ziúr, Tony Elieh, Ludwig Wandinger, Dirar Kalash, and Francesca Grilli.
Sara's acclaimed solo debut album, Boundary, was released in March 2023 on Karlrecords, and her new album Sphaîra was released in February 2025 on Subtext Recordings. She is among the artists selected by the Shape+ Platform, a European initiative supporting innovative music and art, for 2023/24.
Residencies, Scholarships and Prizes
2025 Videocittà Awards
2024 Echo Residenze Territoriali, Sambuca di Sicilia (IT)
2023/24 Shape+ Platform, (EU)
2024 Mutant Radio and Shape+, Tbilisi (GE)
2023 Music Board Berlin and Nyege Nyege, Kampala (UG) 2023 Goethe Institut, Beirut (LE)
2022 Musikfonds e.V. - Neustart Kultur (DE)
2022+2025 Sonoscopia, Porto (PT)
2022 Sardegna Teatro, Argentiera (IT)
2021 Amplify Berlin, Acud Macht Neu (DE)
2020 MultiMadeira, Funchal (PT)
2018 Temp Studio, Lisbon (PT)
Selected Performances
WeSa Seoul (KR) 2025
Wos Festival (ES) 2025
Le Guess Who? Utrecht
Romaeuropa Festival (IT) 2025
Sónar Istanbul, (TR) 2025
Nuits Sonores - Lyon (FR) 2025
Nextones - Val d’Ossola (IT) 2025
Berlin Atonal, (DE) 2024
Madre Museum, Napoli (IT) 2024
schiev Festival, Brussels (BE) 2024
Hybrid Festival, Groningen (NL) 2024
Berghain Kantine, Berlin (DE) 2023
Cairo Jazz Club, Cairo (EG) 2023
Nyege Nyege Fest, Jinja (UG) 2023
CTM Festival, Berlin (DE) 2023
documenta fifteen, Kassel (DE) 2022
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (AT) 2022
Rewire, The-Hague (NL) 2022
Re-Textured, London (UK) 2022
Dancity Festival, Foligno (IT) 2021
Santarcargelo Festival, Italy 2018
Sound
Berlin Atonal, video still
courtesy of Hiroo Tanaka
courtesy of Hiroo Tanaka
Sphaîra AV with Mika Oki
audiovisual performance
Discography
Sheen Lurk - Elvin Brandhi x Sara Persico, 2025 (Superpang)
Sphaîra, 2025 (Subtext Recordings)
Estate V/A, 2025 (Akhet)
Boundary, 2023 (Karlrecords)
Dreamwork, Tedium V/A (A Flooded Need)
Bellwether Ghost Bath Remix, Plead by John Object
Installations
Brutal Threshold, 10’ Madre Museum 2024
Upcoming Shows
2026
28.01 CTM Festival, Berlin
31.01 100_Ve, CS Rivolta
22.02 Lumen Project, Stockholm
16.05 BAO, Brescia
2026
28.01 CTM Festival, Berlin
31.01 100_Ve, CS Rivolta
22.02 Lumen Project, Stockholm
16.05 BAO, Brescia
2025
22.01 L'Aquila ❃
07.02 ZDB, Lisbon ❃
08.02 Passos Manuel, Porto ❃
15.02 Belgrade ❃
28.02 kwia, Berlin ☾
22.03 Le Relais, Paris ❃
28.03 Invision, Milan ❃
02.04 Morphine Raum, Berlin ^
22.04 Kiosk Radio, Brussels ☾
26.04 ACUD, Berlin ☾
09.05 Sónar Istanbul ✷
17.05 Water Me Project, Munich ❃
23.05 Botanique, Brussels ✷
29.05 KM28, Berlin ^
30.05 Nuits Sonores, Lyon ✷
31.05 FIBER, Amsterdam ✷
14.06 Sónar, Barcelona ✷
19.06 TBA, Berlin
20.06 BAO festival, Brescia ❃
21.06 TBA, BE ✷
19.07 Nextones, IT ✷
28.08 Berlin Atonal for Ziur & Sandi's show ❃
12.09 WOS Festival ✷
19.09 w/Gabriele Mitelli - Signal, Cagliari
26.09 Romaeuropa ❃
27.09 Motelsalieri, Milano ❃
05.10 Una Boccata d'Arte - Finissage, Burcei
23.10 Lunchmeat Festival, Prague ✷
24.10 Sonic Territories, Vienna ✷
01.11 Sonda Festival, Brno ❃
07.11 Le Guess Who? ✷
15-18.11 WESA Festival, Seoul ❃
15.12 FK Normality, Roma (dj)
18.12 La Communale Saint-Ouen, Paris ✷
❃ solo live set
☾ dj set
✷ Sphaîra A/V with Mika Oki
^ Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo
(with Hanno Leichtmann, Valerio Tricoli, Magda Mayas)
2024
05.01 Smup x Casa Amarela, Lisbon ❃
19.01 A4, Bratislava ❃
02.02 schiev Festival, Brussels ✯
09.02 Teatro delle Bellezze, Roma ❃
22.02 OCCII x Subbachultcha, Amsterdam ❃
24.02 Hybrid Festival, Groningen ❃
22.03 Takseer x Panke, Berlin ✯
04.04 La Station, Paris ❃
13.04 Akhet x Museo Nitsch, Napoli ❃
25.04 No Stone x Panke, Berlin ✯
24.05 Mutant Radio, Tbilisi ❃
25.05 Centre-Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris ✯
29.05 Museo Madre, Napoli *
06.06 Construction Festival, Lisbon ❃
08.06 Festival Domingo, Madrid ^
29.06 Dampfzentrale, Bern ❃
05.07 Sien Festival, Almaty ❃
15.08 Cairo Jazz Club ✯
25.08 Berlin Atonal
01.09 MAXXI, L'aquila ❃
07.09 Tetovo, North Macedonia ✯
13.09 Cripta747, Torino ❃
14.09 Opera Festival, Poznan ❃
15.09 stromspiesser, Essen ❃
19.09 Monopol, Berlin ❃
20.09 Conflux Festival, Rotterdam ❃
27.09 Avant Art Festival, Warsaw ❃
28.10-3.11 Ortigia Sound System, Sicily ❃
23.11 Overkill festival, Enschede ❃
19.12 Ex-Ospedale Militare, Napoli ❃
20.12 Perditempo (Napoli) x Noods Radio ✯
21.12 Fischio, Roma ✯
❃ live set
✯ dj set
^ live set premiere
*sound installation
2023
5.01 w/ Elvin Brandhi, La Casaforte, Napoli ❃
6.01 Auditorium Novecento, Napoli ✯
7.01 EXP, Roma ✯
4.02 CTM festival, RSO, Berlin ✯
26.02 Arkaoda, Berlin ❃
04.03 Club Mutante, London ❃
31.03 Haunter Records, Milano ❃
01.04 Frequent Defect, Beirut ✯
14.04 Irtijal, Beirut ❃
15.04 No Glucose, Bologna ❃
22.04 Amek Collective, Sofia ❃
04. 05 OHM, Berlin ❃
06.05 Scugnizzo Liberato, Napoli ✯
12.05 La Mutant, Valencia ❃
19.05 w/The Most Unusual Things, KM28, Berlin ❃
24.05 w/The Most Unusual Things, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin ❃
25.05 Kantine am Berghain, Berlin ❃
10.05 Nyege Nyege, Panke, Berlin ✯
8.07 Mistica Festival, Roma ✯
28.07 Bukolika Festival, Přelouč ✯
11.08 Sanatorium of Sound, Sokołowsko ✯
04.08 w/Elvin Brandhi, Sowieso, Berlin ❃
26.08 CURA festival, Grottaglie ❃
29.08 Meet Factory x Shape, Prague ✯
31.08 w/Chrisman, Pop Kultur, Berlin ❃
09.09 Fylkingen, Stockholm ❃
03.10 LOFT, Kölln ❃
12.10 Zebra Film Festiva, Berlin ❃
14.10 Sonic Territories, Rhiz, Vienna ❃
26.10 workshop at Museo Madre, Napoli ❃
28.10 Roter Salon x Psychic Liberation, Berlin ❃
04.11 Platform Wolff, Bucharest ✯
9-12.11 Nyege Nyege Fest, Jinja ❃
26.12 Cairo Jazz Club ❃
❃ live set
✯ dj set
22.01 L'Aquila ❃
07.02 ZDB, Lisbon ❃
08.02 Passos Manuel, Porto ❃
15.02 Belgrade ❃
28.02 kwia, Berlin ☾
22.03 Le Relais, Paris ❃
28.03 Invision, Milan ❃
02.04 Morphine Raum, Berlin ^
22.04 Kiosk Radio, Brussels ☾
26.04 ACUD, Berlin ☾
09.05 Sónar Istanbul ✷
17.05 Water Me Project, Munich ❃
23.05 Botanique, Brussels ✷
29.05 KM28, Berlin ^
30.05 Nuits Sonores, Lyon ✷
31.05 FIBER, Amsterdam ✷
14.06 Sónar, Barcelona ✷
19.06 TBA, Berlin
20.06 BAO festival, Brescia ❃
21.06 TBA, BE ✷
19.07 Nextones, IT ✷
28.08 Berlin Atonal for Ziur & Sandi's show ❃
12.09 WOS Festival ✷
19.09 w/Gabriele Mitelli - Signal, Cagliari
26.09 Romaeuropa ❃
27.09 Motelsalieri, Milano ❃
05.10 Una Boccata d'Arte - Finissage, Burcei
23.10 Lunchmeat Festival, Prague ✷
24.10 Sonic Territories, Vienna ✷
01.11 Sonda Festival, Brno ❃
07.11 Le Guess Who? ✷
15-18.11 WESA Festival, Seoul ❃
15.12 FK Normality, Roma (dj)
18.12 La Communale Saint-Ouen, Paris ✷
❃ solo live set
☾ dj set
✷ Sphaîra A/V with Mika Oki
^ Gruppo di Improvvisazione Giallo
(with Hanno Leichtmann, Valerio Tricoli, Magda Mayas)
2024
05.01 Smup x Casa Amarela, Lisbon ❃
19.01 A4, Bratislava ❃
02.02 schiev Festival, Brussels ✯
09.02 Teatro delle Bellezze, Roma ❃
22.02 OCCII x Subbachultcha, Amsterdam ❃
24.02 Hybrid Festival, Groningen ❃
22.03 Takseer x Panke, Berlin ✯
04.04 La Station, Paris ❃
13.04 Akhet x Museo Nitsch, Napoli ❃
25.04 No Stone x Panke, Berlin ✯
24.05 Mutant Radio, Tbilisi ❃
25.05 Centre-Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris ✯
29.05 Museo Madre, Napoli *
06.06 Construction Festival, Lisbon ❃
08.06 Festival Domingo, Madrid ^
29.06 Dampfzentrale, Bern ❃
05.07 Sien Festival, Almaty ❃
15.08 Cairo Jazz Club ✯
25.08 Berlin Atonal
01.09 MAXXI, L'aquila ❃
07.09 Tetovo, North Macedonia ✯
13.09 Cripta747, Torino ❃
14.09 Opera Festival, Poznan ❃
15.09 stromspiesser, Essen ❃
19.09 Monopol, Berlin ❃
20.09 Conflux Festival, Rotterdam ❃
27.09 Avant Art Festival, Warsaw ❃
28.10-3.11 Ortigia Sound System, Sicily ❃
23.11 Overkill festival, Enschede ❃
19.12 Ex-Ospedale Militare, Napoli ❃
20.12 Perditempo (Napoli) x Noods Radio ✯
21.12 Fischio, Roma ✯
❃ live set
✯ dj set
^ live set premiere
*sound installation
2023
5.01 w/ Elvin Brandhi, La Casaforte, Napoli ❃
6.01 Auditorium Novecento, Napoli ✯
7.01 EXP, Roma ✯
4.02 CTM festival, RSO, Berlin ✯
26.02 Arkaoda, Berlin ❃
04.03 Club Mutante, London ❃
31.03 Haunter Records, Milano ❃
01.04 Frequent Defect, Beirut ✯
14.04 Irtijal, Beirut ❃
15.04 No Glucose, Bologna ❃
22.04 Amek Collective, Sofia ❃
04. 05 OHM, Berlin ❃
06.05 Scugnizzo Liberato, Napoli ✯
12.05 La Mutant, Valencia ❃
19.05 w/The Most Unusual Things, KM28, Berlin ❃
24.05 w/The Most Unusual Things, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin ❃
25.05 Kantine am Berghain, Berlin ❃
10.05 Nyege Nyege, Panke, Berlin ✯
8.07 Mistica Festival, Roma ✯
28.07 Bukolika Festival, Přelouč ✯
11.08 Sanatorium of Sound, Sokołowsko ✯
04.08 w/Elvin Brandhi, Sowieso, Berlin ❃
26.08 CURA festival, Grottaglie ❃
29.08 Meet Factory x Shape, Prague ✯
31.08 w/Chrisman, Pop Kultur, Berlin ❃
09.09 Fylkingen, Stockholm ❃
03.10 LOFT, Kölln ❃
12.10 Zebra Film Festiva, Berlin ❃
14.10 Sonic Territories, Rhiz, Vienna ❃
26.10 workshop at Museo Madre, Napoli ❃
28.10 Roter Salon x Psychic Liberation, Berlin ❃
04.11 Platform Wolff, Bucharest ✯
9-12.11 Nyege Nyege Fest, Jinja ❃
26.12 Cairo Jazz Club ❃
❃ live set
✯ dj set
© Sara Persico
