About
Lisa Lerkenfeldt is an Australian composer and performer based in Melbourne. Her gently glitched piano recitals span genres and melt time. Primarily using the piano, analogue tape systems and contemporary digital software she blends tradition and experimentation.
Drawing from lineages of musique concrète, American minimalism and modern composition, she seeks out altered tonalities with contemporary resonance and the beauty of restraint. Her trance-like attention to detail and explorations in harmonics, timbre and improvisation inform a tactile elegance. In 2020 she joined the roster of French imprint Shelter Press with her debut EP A Liquor Of Daisies and LP Collagen. In 2021 her EP A Liquor Of Daisies premiered at Melbourne Music Week, alongside its reissue. With Water Up To Her Knees—an electroacoustic work and film—premiered at The Substation in November 2022. Following national tours of Australia and Japan, in 2024 she was a composer in residence at INA GRM Paris. In June 2024 she premiered the multichannel work In The Window Of Time at Le Centquatre commissioned by INA GRM.
Lisa Lerkenfeldt respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
“An ivory hued fever dream.” - Boomkat
“Fantastic, aesthetic, immersive. This year’s best daydream ambient/modern classical masterpiece.” - Meditations
“Post-classical songs that evoke scenes from daily life through introspective musique concrète and highly abstract composition.” - Kankyō Records