Lisa Whistlecroft

Lisa Whistlecroft

Lisa Whistlecroft is a sonic artist based in north-west England.  After many years as an electroacoustic music groupie, she started composing relatively late in life, thanks to encouragement and support from Jonty Harrison.  Throughout her professional working life in higher education teaching support she identified as an amateur composer, campaigned (quietly) to restore that word to its meaning of composing for the love of it, and protested its usage to mean second rate.  In 2000 she was elected to the Board of Directors of Sonic Arts Network and was company secretary for 4 years.

Lisa’s concert pieces have been performed across the world but she now mostly works collaboratively with theatre and environmental artists, creating sound scores for dance, film and installations, for a wide variety of venues.  Highlights have been:
The Saturated Moment (with Nigel Stewart and Dominique Bulgin). Dance-theatre piece.
Jack Scout (redux) (for Louise Ann Wilson and Nigel Stewart). Art-film derived from an environmental performance in a Lancashire nature reserve.
Ghost Bird (for Louise Ann Wilson and Nigel Stewart).  A 4-hour, continuously-playing, 4-channel setup in a fire-lit stone barn with no power supply, half way up a mountain valley!
The Dusk Wood (with Nigel Stewart and Ellen Jeffries). Dance-theatre piece.
On the Patterns We Gaze (for Ellen Jeffries). Art-film derived from a long-form work for dancers in a Cumbrian woodland, charting the transition from dusk to night.

Now pretty much retired and building a new life as care-giver to two acres of woodland; planning to transition into simply being a tree in the longer term!