About Lisa Kori

Lisa Kori is a Hawaiian-born, New Mexico-based musician. While working as a researcher documenting electronic music and art, she began to perform her own noise music. Her current music adds a lyrical touch, incorporating folk influences. She is currently working on a full length album that explores Asian-American identity.

Lisa Kori has performed in Brazil, Switzerland, NYC and Santa Fe, sharing the bill with a range of artists, from avant garde projects such as Colin Self, Female Genius, Vanessa De Michelis, Joker Nies and PSIRENS, to Americana acts such as Pearl Charles, Walker Kass, and Ry Warner. She also sings in the alt-country band Clementine Was Right, country-folk quartet Dear Doctor, and has a duet project with singer Rachel Claire.

She has exhibited artwork in venues such as EYEBEAM in New York, Sonar+D in Barcelona, Wearable Futures in London, The Museum of Future Government in Dubai, Blackout Festival in Basel, the Lichter FilmFest in Frankfurt, and has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Creators Project, Noisey, Wired, Fast Company, and Dezeen.

With ethnomusicologist Dave Novak, she co-authored a survey of handmade sound communities around the globe, which appears in the third edition of Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins. She also hosts a radio show (currently on hiatus) on KMRD-LP called ‘The Wandering Ear’ that leans heavily toward experimental music.

Her short film ‘Three Minute Eggs’ was awarded ‘Best Poetic Film’ at the Madrid Film Festival in New Mexico, ‘Best Experimental Film’ at the Mindfield Film Festival in Albuquerque, was a finalist for the Lichter Art Award at the Lichter Filmfest in Frankfurt, and was an official selection of the New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase. Three Minute Eggs was screened at the 2019 Basement Films’ 'Experiments in Cinema,' an experimental film festival based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Past projects include Open Fit, open source pattern-making software with Kyle McDonald, Anti-NIS Accessories, wearables to thwart neuro-imaging surveillance with Caitlin Morris, and The Medium and the Mayhem, a research project that documented DIY electronic art practices around the world. Past positions include working in the Interaction Design department of FABRICA in Italy, an artist residency investigating new forms of opera at EYEBEAM in Brooklyn, and the fabrication team of Hypersonic, a kinetic sculpture studio in Brooklyn.

She also gets sick an unreasonable amount and doesn't know why.