Christoph Matekas’s work focuses on sound and the listening experience in all its complexity. He lives in Vienna and has been working as a sound designer, musician, music producer and sound engineer for more than 15 years. While studying musicology at the University of Vienna, he explored the roles of producer, and recording and mixing engineer in his own recording studio. As the co-founder of the live electronic trio Gudrun Von Laxenburg (BMG UK), he also gained international touring experience as a musician.
He designed the live sound for the Impulstanz festival in Vienna and composed and designed the sound for the Broadway choreographer Raja Feather Kelly’s production of ‘The Absolute Future’ at the NYU Skirball in 2024. He also designed the opera and theatre sound for Benjamin Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (directed by Andrea Breth and Ben Glassberg at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2021 and 2024). He also worked with Andrea Breth on ‘Ich hab' die Nacht geträumet’ (Berliner Ensemble, 2023); on Mateja Koležnik’s ‘Hedda Gabler’ (Schauspiel Frankfurt, 2022) and ‘Kasimir und Karoline’ (Burgtheater Wien, 2023); and on Marie Schleef’s ‘Die Vegetarierin’ (Akademietheater Wien, 2025).
In addition to his other activities as an instrumentalist (violin, synthesizer, vocals), Christoph Mateka collaborated with Swiss artist Eloui to create sound installation concepts for the Zoom Children’s Museum in Vienna.