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Lisa Lerkenfeldt is an Australian composer and performer. 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 and electroacoustic techniques since her debut A Liquor Of Daisies on Shelter Press in 2020.
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Lisa Lerkenfeldt is a composer and performer based in Melbourne. She explores minimalist structures with stillness and intensity. Her imaginative process is poetic and precise; distilling new registers in the field of consciousness through electroacoustic composition, like a torchlight in the dark.
Alongside classical instrumentation, she augments analogue technologies into new forms through handcraft, digitisation and experimental processing. Flickering piano, tape systems, and their spatialised distortions unfold in repetitive motifs. Multilayered acoustic refractions invite perceptual shifts over durational encounters.
Drawing from lineages of musique concrète, minimalism and modern music, 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 diary-like intimacy. Her compositions are intentionally open, welcoming endless variations and multiple readings.
Gently balancing tradition and experimentation, she has performed at major museums, concert halls, art spaces, listening rooms and private dinners in Australia, Europe and Japan. Concerned with disruptions in form, her work presents as writing, music, film, installation and performance. Her work has featured in LA Art Book Fair, INA GRM, Art Gallery Of NSW, Gertrude Contemporary and Melbourne Fashion Week.
In 2020 she joined the roster of French imprint Shelter Press with her debut EP A Liquor Of Daisies and LP Collagen. With water up to her knees—an electroacoustic work and film—premiered in 2022. Following national tours of Australia and Japan, 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, comissioned by INA GRM.
Airplay on BBC3, Radio France, NTS, Dublab, RRR, FBI and many more
Featured on Spotify's Editorial Playlists Women in Experimental,
Women in Ambient, BBC3 Ultimate Calm
6/7 sold out releases since 2020
Albums sold worldwide including Europe, UK, United States, Japan
Featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Resident Advisor and
Boomkat Album Of The Week
National tours of Australia and Japan in 2022-2023
Debut shows in Paris and Berlin (sold out) in 2024
New album coming out in 2025
Opened for the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Art Gallery Of
New South Wales with a durational piano performance for an audience
of 1200 in 2023
Commissions for INAGRM, Melbourne Music Week, The Substation,
and Melbourne Fashion Week
PERFORMANCES
2025 National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2025 Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2025 At The Above, Residency, Melbourne, Australia
PERFORMANCES
2024 INA GRM presents Focus, Le Centquatre, Paris, France *Premiere In The Window Of Time
2024 Digital in Berlin presents Kiezsalon, Berlin, Germany
2024 Vaagner presents, 8MM, Berlin, Germany
2023 Louise Bourgeois opening, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2023 Volume festival, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
2023 Kankyo Records instore, Kankyo Records, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Daisart showcase, Forestlimit, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Soto showcase, Soto, Kyoto Japan
2023 Dublab presents Tonalism, Bonnaroo festival, Manchester, United States
2022 The Substation, Melbourne, Australia *Premiere With Water Up To Her Knees
2022 Liveworks festival, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
2022 Room40 presents Mono, Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2022 Design Week, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
2022 Liquid Architecture presents Mono Poly, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Gathering Geographies, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021 OK LA, Montreal, Canada
2021 Grey Area, San Francisco, United States
2021 Sonosphere, Memphis, United States
2020 Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia *Premiere A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk
2020 Daisart & Shelter Press present, Melbourne Music Week, Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia *Premiere A Liquor Of Daisies
"An ivory hued fever dream."
- Boomkat
"Lerkenfeldt's music can feel like the most plangent piano chords from all the most beautiful deep house songs in history, left to flood and decompose."
- Resident Advisor
"Fantastic, aesthetic, immersive. This year's best modern classical ambient daydream.
- Meditations
“Her work combines traditional instrumentation with experimental techniques, emphasising sound’s physicality and cyclical structures. At her residencies in Paris and Melbourne, the latter At The Above, she integrates historical and contemporary influences, working with restored pianos, analogue hardware, and modern technology. “
- To Be Magazine
Features
A film with INA GRM
A feature on Radio France
An interview with To Be
A premiere in Sydney
In residence At The Above
A mix for NTS
A tour announcement with AVYSS
Links
Website
Linktree
Bandcamp
Riders
Press kit
Tech rider
Hospitality rider
EMAIL lisalerkenfeldt@gmail.com
PHONE +61468649879