Luisa Muhr

Luisa Muhr is an interdisciplinary vocalist and art-maker, with a focus on vocal, movement and performance art. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improviser, installation artist, sound artist, composer, director, and experimental theater maker.


Originally from Vienna (Austria), Luisa speaks multiple languages and has Hungarian and Anatolian-Greek roots. She lives and works in New York, and finds a home in the experimental/avant-garde. 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.

Luisa is the vocalist of the free improv band PlayField (577 Records) (with Daniel Carter, Aron Namenwirth, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Zachary Swanson, Yutaka Takahaschi, and Jon Panikkar) and the audio-visual collective Dilate Ensemble (with Carole Kim, Jon Raskin, Scott L. Miller, and Gloria Damijan). She was also a former member of the the online NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble and a core member of the former vocal-movement ensemble Constellation Chor (which ended in 2024).