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Luisa Muhr
Luisa Muhr is an Austrian, New York based experimental vocalist and interdisciplinary art-maker, working predominantly with the voice and physical movement. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improviser, installation artist, sound artist, composer, and experimental theater maker.
Her creations range from interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and compositions, to video works, and opera. Muhr is a part of the improviser septet PlayField, as well as the audio-visual collective Dilate Ensemble. She is also a certified Deep Listening® practitioner after Pauline Oliveros.
In 2024 Muhr released her debut solo album, TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL on the Austrian label Boomslang, and her second album, In Trialogue.
Commissions and Residencies include Roulette Intermedium, Pioneer Works, and the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC. Artists Muhr has worked with include William Brittelle, Daniel Carter, Claire Chase, Ash Fure, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sarah Hennies, Shelley Hirsch, Carole Kim, Meredith Monk, Arturo O’Farrill, William Parker, John Zorn, and the New York Philharmonic.
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Playfield: Magic Heart
by Mike Jurkovic
Daniel Carter, who--if not the epitome of free consciousness then is very well within the immediate vicinity of striking range--gives props to electric Miles Davis and The Beatles' psychedelica with mischief and madness on the hell bent and heaven sent Magic Heart. Their second entrance into the Carter's life long discography, Playfield is a true Carter collective: intuitively passing the torch from vocalist Luisa Muhr, to Ayumi Ishito, tenor sax and electronics, pianist Eric Plaks, guitarists/electronics Aron Namenwirth ...
Continue ReadingPlayfield: Stepping Out
by Mike Jurkovic
577 Records founder, chief architect, free blowing, free willed, harmonic rebel and reed master Daniel Carter has never shied away from the unknown metropolis. From the silent instant which captures the imagination and sends it sleighing its own peaks and valleys, Carter, and whoever chooses to accept his challenge to participate, let the moment move them and the music into new spaces. Playfield, as this particular congregate of players from downtown NY is dubbed, brings it all to ...
Continue Reading"Luisa Muhr's voice is remarkably striking." – Free Jazz Collective
"utterly haunting vocals... lovely, soaring flights in voice..." – New York City Jazz Record
"...her lustrous vocalese is a trip!" – New York Music Daily/Lucid Culture
"Luisa Muhr is remarkable in her contributions to contemporary vocal art, as well as to dance and to humanity, itself ... her music not only transcends genre, but also, music, itself, in the sense of being a warmly welcoming spiritual, and soul invitation." – Daniel Carter
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Luisa Muhr
Location: New York City
Instrument: Vocals
