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  • co-creation of a new opera with eight-times Grammy winning composer Arturo O'Farrill

  • New installation piece and creations in the works

  • new album release in the works

  • multiple duo, trio, and quartet improv sets with a wide variety of local experimental musicians (for more please go to GOING-ONS section)

  • multiple other projects on a running basis (for more please go to GOING-ONS section)

WATCH: CREATIONS & IMPROVISATIONS

Luisa Muhr in Trialogue with María Grand and Eric Arn Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna

Luisa Muhr in Trialogue with María Grand and Eric Arn Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna

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WATCH: COLLABORATIONS

William Parker & Andrew O’Conner: Music and the Shadow People

William Parker & Andrew O’Conner: Music and the Shadow People

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GRAPHIC SCORES (Selection)

LISTEN: RELEASES

PROJECTS, BANDS & ENSEMBLES (current and former)

WATCH: EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM CREATIONS

Oscilloscope (2020)

Oscilloscope (2020)

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WATCH: INTERVIEWS / TALKS / FEATURES

Luisa

Luisa

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OVERVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT PAST WORKS, SOLOS, CO-CREATIONS,  RELEASES & COLLABORATIONS

2024

In Trialogue Performance with María Grand and Eric Arn (Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria)

Solo debut album release TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL, in collaboration with Boomslang Records

Du musst es dreimal sagen Musical Dice Game Installation Performance (Volkstheater/Rote Bar, Vienna, Austria)

Collaborations / Participations:

INDRA'S NET by Meredith Monk (Park Avenue Armory, NYC)

Improv Trio with Gloria Damijan and Günther Albrecht (Vekks, Vienna, Austria)

Improv Duo with Aron Namenwirth, as part of Rirkrit Tiravanija's exhibition A Lot of People (MoMa PS1, Queens, NY)

And So It Was and Was and WaAAass by Shelley Hirsch (Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY)

 

 

2023

 

Space Activation Solo Performance (special event as part of Suzanne Levesque / Cristo and Jeanne-Claude exhibition at Museum im Schloss Bad Pyrmont, Bad Pyrmont, Germany)

 

Dilate Ensemble Performances (CNMAT UC Berkley, Berkley, CA and Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA)

 

Improv Trio with Sita Chay and Trae Crudup (Arts for Art In the Gardens series, NYC (commission))

 

Unfolding with Dilate Ensemble (live and virtually at Echoraum Vienna, Austria)

Collaborations / Participations:

Improv Trio with Daniel Carter and Jessica Pavone (Zürcher Gallery, NYC)

SnImprov with Gloria Damijan, Bernhard Schöberl, Claudia Cervena, and Eric Arn (Gallerie Artpool, Vienna, Austria)

Improv Duo with Gloria Damijan (Vekks, Vienna, Austria)

CASCADE by Carole Kim (Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA)

In Search of Enlightenment by William Parker (FourOneOne, Brooklyn, NY)

Constellation Chor recording and residency at Studio 9 (North Adams, Massachusetts) 

Abe Mamet Tape release (The Thing We Fought For) and performance (Rhizome, Washington DC)

Emily Shapiro release (The Cosmic Hand), on Bandcamp

Six in a Septet performances (Downtown Music Gallery, Prime Produce, Underland Gallery, Aron's Place, NYC and Brooklyn, NY)

Music and the Shadow People by William Parker and Andrew O’Connor (Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY)

Special guest at William Parker's Intergenerational Ensemble performance (The Clemente, NYC)

Density 2036: Reservoir (Claire Chase/Sarah Hennies with Constellation Chor at The Kitchen, NYC)

Improv octet with special guests (Rome and Canale Monterano, Italy)

All Men Return to Dust (Installation by Charles Smith, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine)

2022

PlayField album release (Stepping Out), on 577 Records (Brooklyn, NY)

She-devil (Mephistophela) in Duo setting with Gloria Damijan (Vienna tour: Kunstbetrieb, Vekks, Rhiz)

Denali solo recording (Alaska residency)

Opening Performance for Zhen Guo's exhibition "Muted Landscape" (Gallery 345, NYC)

Collaborations / Participations:

 

CHOOSE (Carole Kim, as part of LUMINEX 2.0 Festival, Downtown Los Angeles), featuring music and dance

2021

Go-To-Shapes / Stoff Stuk at exhibition un/mute, co-creation with Ada Van Hoorebeke (Austrian Cultural Forum NY / art gallery Undercurrent, NYC)

CATENA with Dilate Ensemble (Counterpulse, San Francisco)

Babəl (Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY (commission))

Aerial live stream of Dilate Ensemble (virtual live concert at SEAMUS conference, and CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
 

Collaborations / Participations:
 

December 1952 (by Earle Brown), performed in duo with Corey Fogel at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Improv Duo with Gloria Damijan (Vekks and Gallerie Blumentopf, Vienna, Austria)

 

Improv Duo with Tania Caroline Chen (The Oculus, NYC, as part of Make Music NYC)

MetaSims (by William Britelle with Constellation Chor, as part of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra project)

Constelaciónes Recorded Performance (by Jimena Maldonado with Constellation Chor, as part of Hildegard Commissions at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY)

2020

PlayField trilogy album release (Sonar, The Middle, After Life), on 577 Records (Brooklyn, NY)

 

On Memory II  live stream of Dilate Ensemble (virtual live concert, Montalvo Art Center, California)

10001 Commission, Stoff Stuk , co-creation with Ada Van Hoorebeke (virtual, Austrian Cultural Forum NY / art gallery Undercurrent, NYC)

Parasol live stream of Dilate Ensemble (virtual live concert, Echoräume stream, Vienna, Austria)

Bandcamp releases of RELICS I+II by Dilate Ensemble

EIN graphic score composition for voices

If you like this, You'll Love That online exhibition at art gallery Collar Works (Troy, NY)

Oscilloscope Study 3.0 (ECHOfest, ChaSaMa space at 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY)

Archetypes in the Adapted Astrological Radix (after C. G. Jung) graphic score performance with Wendy Eisenberg (Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, NY)

Graphic score Archetypes in the Adapted Astrological Radix (after C. G. Jung) composition
 

Collaborations / Participations:

Human Grid Recorded Performance (Yuval Avital, as part of Manifesta Biennial, stream in Marseille, France)

Human Signs Recording (Yuval Avital, as part of Manifesta Biennial)

Live social-distanced concerts at Outside Aron's with PlayField band: Daniel Carter, Aron Namenwirth, Ayumi Ishito, Yutaka Takahashi, Eric Plaks, Jon Panikkar and guest Rodney Chapman (Brooklyn, NY)

Tranformation State and Equality (NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble, lead by Sarah Weaver, virtual concerts)

Improv Duo with Elinor Speirs (virtual live concert)

Improv Trio with Sae Hashimoto and Joanna Mattrey (The Owl, Brooklyn, NY)

Improv Quartet with Daniel Carter, Dave Sewelson, and Aron Namenwirth (Abasement series at Max Fish, NYC) (Daniel Carter out due to an injury)

Improv Quartet with Daniel Carter, Dave Sewelson, and Aron Namenwirth (Pete's Free Jazz at Aron's Place, Brooklyn, NY)

10 Blessings (Nilusha Dassenaike at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY)

Loup Lunaire (Mary Prescott at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY)

Improvisation with Iva Bittová (Women Between Arts, The New School, College of Performing Arts, Glassbox Theater, NYC)

2019

Oscilloscope (solo) and other works (The New School, as part of the John Cage MusiCircus at The New School, NYC)

 

Poem A Storm Knocked Down this Tree the other Day: Tribute to Steve Dalachinsky (shared at the memorial at Downtown Music Gallery, NYC)

 

your trash is my trash (Governors Island as part of Banyi Huang and Lemon Guo's Inundation, Undulation, Modulation, NYC)

 

Duo performance with Wendy Eisenberg (Pioneer Works, in Atelier Van Lieshout’s CryptoFuturism installation at the False Harmonics series, during Luisa’s Music Residency, Brookyn, NY)

Sounds of Physical Listening installation (Pioneer Works, during Luisa’s Music Residency, Brooklyn, NY)

 

Between The Threads: The Jewish Women Project (HERE Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY)

Collaborations / Participations:

 

Density 2036: Reservoir (Claire Chase/Sarah Hennies with Constellation Chor at The Kitchen, NYC and at Harvard ArtLab, Boston, MA)

Improv Trio with Devin Gray and Will Greene (Bushwick Public House, as part of Bushwick Improv Series, Brooklyn, NY)

Improv Duo with Dina Maccabee (Pool Series, curated by Aaron Rubinstein and Kevin Murray, Brooklyn, NY)

 

Trio with Devin Gray and Owen Stewart-Robertson (St. Lydia's, as part of Brackish series, Brooklyn, NY)

Rhythm Reclamation Exercises, Study #5 (concept by Daniel Bear Davis in collaboration with Luisa at H0l0, as part of DanceH0l0 series, Brooklyn, NY)

Improv Duo with C. Lavender (Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY)

Tableaux Vivants (Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow at Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY)

The Picnic: Harvest of the STEW  (Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow at Queens Museum, Queens, NY)

Dem Leydik experimental Klezmer trio with Dan Blacksberg and Adam Matlock (Town & Village Synagogue, as part of NY Klezmer Series, NYC)

The Gauntlet (Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol at Rockefeller Center, co-produced by National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY)
 

Fly, Fly Mom Fly (Shelley Hirsch at Queenslab, Queens, NY)

Unsilencing (Sondra Sun-Odeon at Hudson Basilica, Hudson, NY)

Improv Duo with Brandon Lopez (H0l0 and The Glove, Brooklyn, NY)

2018

Invisible Suite: Free Falling Borderless (by Arturo O'Farrill (text by Eric Gamalinda, sounds creation/text setting by Luisa Muhr), performed by the Young People's Chorus of New York City at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, released on O'Farrill's record 'Fandango at the Wall', NYC)

Anna (Austrian Cultural Forum NYC and The New School, College of Performing Arts, Glasbox Theater, NYC)

Collaborations / Participations:

Or Else Opera: Eisler-Brecht (Bread and Puppet Theater/Peter Schumann at Theatre for the New Audience, NYC)

Filament (Ashley Fure/New York Philharmonic with Constellation Chor at Lincoln Center, NYC)


LES Elegy 1 (Frank London at The Stone, NYC)

The Desire/Divinity Project (Constellation Chor at Judson Memorial Church, NYC)

 

2017

WASSER WORKS (The Stone, featuring Patricia Brennan and Richie Barshay, NYC)

Collaborations / Participations:

Paris Capital of the 19th Century Performance (Kenneth Goldsmith/John Zorn at the Jewish Museum, NYC)

 

Albright  (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY)
 

Sappho Fragments (Constellation Chor at Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC)

 

Purim Ball (Jenny Romaine at Park Avenue Armory, NYC)

 

Geoff Berner & Luisa Muhr (as part of New York Klezmer Series at Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY)

 

COCKPIT (The Balcony Theater at West Park, NYC)

 

Excerpts of Three Penny Opera (in Yiddish at Yiddish New York, NYC)

 

2016

Collaborations / Participations:

Dolores (The Playroom Theater, NYC)

2014

Collaborations / Participations:

Recapturing the Scenic Wilds Exhibition (Jessica Segall's In-progress installation, audio-collaboration with Ted Strauss at Wave Hill,  Bronx, NY)

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