As an experimental musician and improviser she has developeda unique language based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonicpossibilities, expanding the instrument using live electronic devices andinnovative performance techniques.

She studied music and composition at the University of Musicand Performing Arts and the Conservatory of Music in Vienna, creating afoundation on the basis of which she continues to construct and explore thelimits of sound and music in a language entirely her own. The violin, voice andher own body transform into sound bodies which are at once organic and primal,screaming, lyrical, composed and explosive.

As „one of the spearheads of the austrian music avantgarde“(MICA-Music Information Center Austria) Mia Zabelka developed the process shedescribes as automatic playing, continuously exploring sound and music asphysical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in radical andprovocative performances and compositions that question established notions andgiven structures. She has given concerts and performances throughout Europe,America and Asia. Recipient of numerous prizes (3-time winner oft the Prix ArsElectronica) and awards, she was a guest of the DAAD's (German AcademicExchange Service's) international artists' programme in Berlin and theFulbright Commission in New York.

Recent central works include:

Project M and Project Z, crossemedia performances incooperation with video artist Mia Makela Medusa’s Bed, a crossmedia performancewith Lydia Lunch and Zahra Mani Pandora’s Dream, an experimental music theatre

Collaborations with various international artists includingJohn Zorn, David Moss, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, FranzHautzinger, Martin Siewert, Phil Minton, Shelley Hirsch, Al Margeolis, EliotSharp, Francis Marie Uitti, Cremaster, Dälek and Lydia Lunch, among others.

In 2007 Mia Zabelka founded the Klang.Haus, a centre forsound and interdisciplinary art at her house in southern Styria. The klang.hausis a meeting point for international and local artists and hosts the Klang.Zeitfestival four times a year.

Since 2009 Mia Zabelka is the artistic director ofphonofemme Vienna, an international Festival of female Improvised electronicMusic and Sound Art.

Mia Zabelka is currently collaborating in Duos with LydiaLunch, Gino Robair and Zahra Mani, with Video Artist Mia Makela and in Trioswith Astma feat. Olga Kosova/ Alexei Borisov, Mia Zabelka Trio feat. PavelFajt/ Johannes Frisch and Trio Blurb feat. John Russell/Maggie Nicols.