Lisa Stenberg

Swedish composer and musician, born March 11, 1980, hailing from Luleå in the north of Sweden, based in Stockholm.

Her music oscillates in the realm of instrumental and electroacoustic music, often drone-based and slow, characterised by gradually evolving and sustained sound.

Lisa’s music has been performed in Europe and Russia at festivals like Donaufestival (AU), Norbergfestival (SE), OSA Festival (PL), Inversia (RS), Intonal festival (SE), SONICA festival (SI) and in various music and arts venues around the world.

The drone suite ”Monument” composed on the historical analogue/digital hybrid synthesizer EMS Synthi 100, was originally commissioned by the renowned art festival documenta 14 in Athens, as part of a collaboration between KSYME-CMRC, documenta 14, Elektronmusikstudion EMS and Fylkingen to restore and reactivate KSYME-CMRC’s synthesizer that had not been working for more than 20 years. Lisa’s work was premiered at Athens Concert Hall during the festival and later released on cassette label Ambitious Tapes.

Recent work includes a cycle of pieces exploring the swedish folk instrument cittra paired up with electronics and feedback, and long durational compositions recorded on the EMS Synthi 100 in Electronic Studio at Radio Belgrade, re-amplified in the grand concrete halls of Ställbergs Gruva - a former iron mine hidden in the woods of Sweden.