Endless piano and tape loop variations by Australian composer and multi-disciplinary artist, Lisa Lerkenfeldt. A music for three pianos in the advent of isolation. A poem to Xerochrysum Viscosum, an everlasting daisy native to Melbourne, Victoria. An unfolding fantasy through the field of time. A proposal for multiple players and machines.

'A Liquor Of Daisies' is the prelude of Lisa Lerkenfeldt's forthcoming album 'Collagen', out summer 2020 on Shelter Press.

Credits:
Released June 5, 2020

Music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastered by Kassian Troyer @ D&M, Berlin
Design by Bartolomé Sanson
Recorded in Melbourne, 2020.
SP126 Shelter Press

A Liquor Of Daisies

A Liquor Of Daisies (Excerpt)

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep...  more

Credits:
Released August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

Champagne Smoke

The Weight Of History

Music For Three Combs

Gates Of Desire

In Her Hair

Wet and muted
I breathe the air
heavy like rain
we sit quietly
feeling the timbre
of echoes
and the fragrance
of atmospheres
before they were clouds
I look into the stream

For piano and tape:

Lerkenfeldt 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 abandoned technologies into new hybrid forms through handcraft, digitisation and experimental digital processing. Flickering piano, tape systems and their spatialised distortions unfold in repetitive motifs on With Water Up To Her Knees. In Before They Were Clouds, multi-layered acoustic refractions speculate on atmospheric systems.

With Water Up To Her Knees is produced by Shelter Press in small series cassette single edition and digital with a limited pullout poster and poem by the artist. The work has its world premiere at eminent electronic arts centre The Substation, Melbourne on 24-25 November 2022, with a hybrid performance in collaboration with filmmaker Tristan Jalleh.

Written and recorded on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung country, Summer 2022.

“I love the sound of mechanical failure, when the sophisticated machine collapses into itself.” 

Credits:
Released November 22, 2022

Music and poetry by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastered by Joe Talia
Photograph by Traianos Pakioufakis

With Water Up To Her Knees

Before They Were Clouds

Tonalism at Bonnaroo
Lisa Lerkenfeldt
06.16.23

This mix is a part of a pre-recorded collection of ambient sets which will be played back at the 2023 bonnaroo music and arts festival. dublab returns to bonnaroo for our third time to present these mixes beneath the trees and stars in “The Grove” area of the festival.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt is a composer and performer living in Melbourne. Her works for piano, tape and electronics alter time with a ‘radical softness’ (Boomkat).

TRACKLIST:

W&W, Matthew P. Hopkins
Forum On The Deconstruction Of Oceans, Eunice Andrada & Del Lumanta
The Revenant Main Theme, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto
Unlimited Trance, Igor Dyanchenko
The Weight of History, Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Twin Bed, Claire Rousay
Tucked behind your ears like wings 1, Angelo Harmsworth & Theodore Cale Schaefer
slumber, èvia
dyed in the wool, picnic
Unreleased, Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Under the blue light (Unreleased), Moss Harvest
En Bas Tu Vois, Sarah Davachi
daytimes pt.1, Zekkereya El-magharbel
I’m Too Sleepy… Shall We Swim, Belong
With water up to her knees (Tape Demo), Lisa Lerkenfeldt

https://www.dublab.com/archive/lisa-lerkenfeldt-tonalism-at-bonnaroo-06-16-23

Tonalism at Bonnaroo

Australian artist and composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt guest hosts Post-Geography with one hour of extended technique and durational practice.

January 9, 2023
Archived at NTS.LIVE

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-1st-december-2023

NTS: Post-Geography w/ Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Composer and performer

www.lisalerkenfeldt.com

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 since her debut ‘A Liquor Of Daisies’ on Shelter Press in 2020.

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