MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER
Lisa Lerkenfeldt is an Australian musician and composer who works with piano, analogue tape systems and digital software to dissolve time and blur genre. Time-dusted tape loops, paired back piano and slow dances of static noise form a palette littered with textural ambience. Improvised sketches draw on the fragile beauty of acoustic instruments, electroacoustic techniques and imperfections. Tactile and non-linear in arrangment, her compositions are informed by the lineage of 20th century piano composition, musique concrète and experiments in spatial audio, posing a delicate intervention in the history of works for piano and tape. Open in structure, these pieces invite endless variation and multiple readings.
Lisa writes music for the everyday that operates in a space between rehearsal and recital and between home and stage. She has performed at major museums, concert halls, art spaces and listening rooms in Australia, Europe, UK and Japan and has collaborated with artists, musicians, filmmakers and designers. Her work has featured at INA-GRM, Frieze London, The National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary and Melbourne Fashion Week. Following two LPs on Shelter Press (France), national tours of Australia and Japan, and residencies in Paris and Melbourne, she is currently writing and recording in 2025.
Out now:
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Halos Of Perception (LP, Album), Shelter Press, 2023
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - With Water Up To Her Knees (EP, Single), Shelter Press, 2022
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Collagen (LP, Album), Shelter Press, 2020
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - A Liquor Of Daisies, (EP, Album), Shelter Press, 2020
Recent:
19.11.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at Frieze London w/ Doyenne, Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki, Maria Gorodeckaya, Completedworks
18.07.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at National Gallery of Victoria
20.06.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at National Gallery of Victoria
19.06.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at Miscellania w/ Felicia Atkinson, Shelter Press
19.03.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at Art Gallery Of New South Wales
01.01.25 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt at At The Above Residency w/ Space Between
Recent Press:
2025 | The Ultimate Guide to Frieze Week - British Vogue, UK
2025 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt’s ‘The Folded Page’- To Be Magazine, Australia
2025 | Lisa Lerkenfeldt’s ‘In The Window Of Time’ - INA-GRM, France
2024 | L’Experimental invitée Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Radio France, France
Bookings & commissions: lisalerkenfeldt@gmail.com