About
Lisa Lerkenfeldt is an Australian composer and performer based in Melbourne. Her endless piano and tape loop variations dissolve time through collages of decayed ambience, analogue manipulation and cyclic structure. Informed by patience and a tactile elegance, Lerkenfeldt has been working with extended durations since her debut A Liquor Of Daisies on Shelter Press in 2020.
Through a minimal vocabulary of repetitive figures, experimental and electroacoustic techniques she has recently released on Bartolomé Sanson & Félicia Atkinson’s Shelter Press (FR); Flora Yin Wong’s Doyenne Books (UK) and Lawrence English’s Room40 (AU).
Lerkenfeldt has performed at institutions, museums and festivals in Australia and Japan including The Arts Centre, The Substation, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Performance Space, Institute of Modern Art, Ian Potter Museum Of Art, MPavilion, Liquid Architecture, Australian Centre For Moving Image, Melbourne Music Week and Melbourne Fashion Week. Acoustic piano, reel to reel tape systems, and their spatialised distortions unfold in hallucinatory concerts. Multilayered acoustic refractions invite perceptual shifts over hypnotic durational encounters.
In 2024, she was composer in residence at INA GRM. On 9 June, 2024 new work, In The Window Of Time premiered at Centquatre Paris 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.