Lisa E. Harris
Collaborating Artist

Lisa E. Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, writer, singer/songwriter, and educator from Houston, Texas. Recognized by Huffington Post as “one of fourteen artist transforming Opera”, Harris’s work focuses on the energetic relationships between body, land, spirit, and place. Using voice, theremin, movement, meditation and new media to explore spatial awareness, relationality, panoptical surveillance and sonic profiling, she maintains a focused concentration on healing in performance and living. She is the founder and creative director of Studio Enertia, an arts collective and production company in Houston. Studio Enertia is the producer of Harris’s recently completed ten year durational work, “Cry of the Third Eye, a new opera film in Three Acts” that archives the effects of gentrification on her Houston neighborhood. She recently created and curated Houston’s inaugural Free Time Flow Festival at MacGregor Park, celebrating the intersections of basketball, electro-acoustic music and improvisational performance.

She can be heard on her much anticipated release “EarthSeed,” a live performance album based on the writings of Octavia Butler, composed with Nicole Mitchell on FPE records. Harris is also often featured as the lead singer with Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party. She has performed at numerous jazz festivals, including Monterey Jazz Festival and Newport Jazz Festival, among others. She is an inaugural artist in residence of the New Quorum Residency for Composers in New Orleans. Recent engagements include “The Force of Things- an Opera for Objects” by Ashley Fure, “The Nubian Word for Flowers - a phantom Opera” by Pauline Oliveros and IONE, and “Earthseed”, a co-composition commission with Nicole M. Mitchell for Chicago's Art Institute.

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