Mario Gabola’s current practices are focused on applying unstable and non-linear behavior generated by electronic systems (self-made or recycled) using feedback (internal/external) and resonance to the saxophone.

Born in Salerno, Italy in 1981, Mario Gabola began playing saxophone at the age of 12 in the "bande da giro" brass band tradition popular in the areas around the city of Salerno and throughout southern Italy. Thanks to this experience Mario came into contact with instrumental and traditional music repertoires performed both of symphonic marches (N. Ippolito, G. Orsomando, M. Lufrano) and religiously inspired music of the Christian tradition. He was also exposed to music in the classical Italian and international tradition (G. Rossini, G. Bizet, F. Chopin, JS Bach), as well as to works in the Neapolitan song tradition.

In 2000, Mario moved to Naples, where he graduated with a degree in Environmental Sciences. While in university, Mario discovered a lively community of experimentalists and began his work in contemporary music. In 2003 he founded the pioneering Italian noise band A Spirale which blends the extended techniques of improvised radical jazz with the freshness of rock and postpunk. A Spirale has recorded for several labels in Europe, Russia, Japan and Italy and has performed around the world.

During the early ‘00s Mario worked closely with Agostino Di Scipio, a sound ecology researcher and teacher at the Naples Conservatory, with whom he published "Up-Set" (Viande Records, 2010) and "Musical Sculptures & Other Devices" (DieSchachtel, 2011). In this phase, his research shifts from extensive saxophone techniques to feedback studies on saxophone and self-built electronics.

Gabola has worked extensively in theater, writing music for actor/director Tonino Taiuti (E.Moscato, M.Martone, Antonio Neiwiller, Renato Carpentieri), an innovator in the popular avant-garde of the Neapolitan theater of the 70s that today merges the rigor of tradition with the practices of experimental music. Gabola also develops works with expanded cinema, including A.Saggiomo, in an attempt to unify light and sound production (synaesthesia) through self-built systems of feedback and electronics.

An ardent concert organizer since the early 2000s, Mario organizes ALTERA! Festival of Other Music, with an emphasis on counterculture and critical thinking. Gabola performs regularly in France, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Estonians, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Finland, Russia, and the United States, establishing collaborative relationships with musicians from many different backgrounds.

Other collaborations:
Utku Tavil, Valerio Tricoli, Will Guthrie, Chris Cogburn, Olivier De Placido, Tonino Taiuti, Collettivo arealista C-Hard-Hill, Stefano Costanzo, MOE, Alexei Borisov, Olga Nosova, Andrzej Zaleski, Mario De Vega, Jack Wright, Sebastian Lemporte, Andrzej Zaleski, Katsura Yamauchi, Ignaz Schick, Fabrizio Spera…