Abul Mogard is the alter ego of Italian musician Guido Zen, known for evocative albums and immersive live performances. His work centres on the use of synthesisers and both analogue and digital sound processing. He has appeared at prestigious festivals and venues including Berlin Atonal, Poesia en Voz Alta in Mexico City, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque in Madrid, Auditorium San Fedele in Milan, Le Guess Who in Utrecht, Mutek in Montreal and the Southbank Centre in London. He was commissioned by the Organ Reframed festival to compose a piece for pipe organ, electronics and trombones, performed at Union Chapel with the London Contemporary Orchestra. He has also performed with the seventy piece Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, orchestrated by Sven Helbig and conducted by Daniel Bjarnasson. His work extends to film, including soundtracks for Duncan Whitley’s ‘Kimberlin’ and ‘Phoenix City’, the latter commissioned by the Coventry Biennial. Mary Anne Hobbs has listed his remixes for Carl Craig and Fovea Hex with Brian Eno among her favourite tracks on BBC Radio and Thom Yorke has included his music in mixes for NTS Radio and the BBC. His music appears across film, television, fashion, contemporary art and advertising, including the trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’, Shane Meadows’ series ‘Gallowspole’, runway shows for Ferragamo and campaigns for Lancôme and Mercedes. Recent releases include ‘Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close’ with Rafael Anton Irisarri and ‘In uno spazio immenso’ with Grand River, alongside collaborations with Anna Von Hausswolff, KMRU and CoH. His latest album, ‘Quiet Pieces’, released on his imprint Soft Echoes, was described by The Quietus as “an album that builds enveloping constructs, reminding us that ambient drone can be as much about space and light as it is about texture and tone.”
