Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia + Anton Pearson

A first joint project by sound artist Marta Salogni and guitarist Stefano Pilia, with Anton Pearson, presented at Cafe OTO in Dalston, London. The music is electronic, built from tape processing and guitar.

Marta Salogni and Stefano Pilia present their first artistic collaboration, a layered and exploratory piece in which Stefano's abstract guitar playing meets Marta's manipulation of tape machines. The work is described as a sound-hymn-dialogue that treats memory and the reworking of narrative, shaped into a sound opera whose form keeps shifting. Anton Pearson also appears on the bill. An album of the project is due from Maple Death Records and Canicola later in 2026.

Marta Salogni works as a producer, recording engineer, mixer and sound artist from Studio Zona in London. Her collaborators include Björk, Bon Iver, Depeche Mode, Damon Albarn, Black Midi, Squid and Animal Collective. On stage she plays improvised and composed sets in which tape machines serve as instruments, producing loops, feedback and delays from live and prepared sounds. Her compositions have been released by Hands In The Dark, Melos Kalpa and Canti Magnetici, and she has performed at Cafe OTO, Teatro San Fedele in Milan and Robot Festival in Bologna.

Stefano Pilia is a guitarist, producer and composer who explores the sculptural qualities of sound and its relationship with space, time and memory. Cafe OTO, a restaurant and bar in Dalston, mainly hosts free jazz and experimental music, including free improvisation, so the evening suits listeners drawn to that field.