Vocalist and producer Eliza Bagg’s music brings polar opposites together. A classically trained singer with a specialism in Renaissance polyphony, she’s also working at the bleeding edge of contemporary experimental music, collaborating with renowned innovators – Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Lyra Pramuk, and the pioneering ensemble Roomful of Teeth, to name a few – while using her work as a solo electronic artist to dissolve the boundaries between medieval and modern, minimalist and maximalist, man and machine.
Equally comfortable soloing with the New York Philharmonic as she is live-processing her vocal improvisations through complex effects chains in Ableton Live, Bagg synthesises a spectrum of diverse influences into a singular project through her music as Lisel.
On her new record, Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay, Bagg stretches the sonic capabilities of the human voice to its extremes. Beginning with vocal improvisations grounded in medieval choral music and 20th-century minimalism, she transforms these raw materials into new forms through vocal processing techniques informed equally by the experimentalist approach of Holly Herndon as they are the sugar-coated hyperpop of Charli XCX.
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