Lisa Greenaway has been working with poetry and spoken word, music, environmental field recording and audio arts for over two decades as a sound artist, spoken word artist, producer and broadcaster. Trained as a specialist audio arts engineer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and with a background of creative radio production and theatre sound design, Lisa combines technical finesse with an intuitive ear for the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, spatial awareness and the construction of atmosphere, weaving compelling stories with voice, music and field recordings. Lisa's work ranges from radio art works, spoken word and music tracks, and DJ sets to spatial sound installation works and poetry film, in collaboration with artists and writers in many fields both in Australia and globally.

First experimenting with audio arts at Melbourne’s Triple R FM, Lisa created innovative poetry/soundscape productions and spoken word and radio drama programs for Triple R throughout the 1990s, including the long-running “Howlings in the Head” series and the weekly spoken word/ audio arts/ radio drama show “SubText”. As a spoken word artist Lisa collaborated with musicians and poets throughout the 1990s-2000's (including David Macken, Phil Wales, Richard Watts, Trevor Brown, Adam Simmons) and produced many live events featuring spoken word artists, songwriters, hip hop MCs, musicians, theatrical, visual and sound artists. Some notable events of this period: "Twilight" at La Mama, simulcast on Triple R FM; "Howlings in the Slaughterhouse" at Budinski's Theatre of Exile; "Tsunami" at Budinski's Theatre of Exile; "Word Jazz" at 303, Melbourne. 

At the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney from 1999-2001 she continued to experiment, working as an engineer on audio arts and radio drama, classical, rock/pop and opera recording, live talks radio and news, and TV drama. During this time Lisa also created sound, music and poetry productions and radio shows for 2FBi, 2SER, KGRIND, IndieFeed Performance Poetry, and Triple J, and co-edited special editions of "Going Down Swinging" and "Rattapallax" journals. 

Throughout the decades of 2000s and 2010s, as producer at the Noise Festival, then editor of international poetry, fiction and spoken word journal “Going Down Swinging,” and co-founder of the "Word Wrestling Federation" poetry slam series, Lisa contributed greatly to the development of spoken word as a recognised art form in Australia. Also during this time Lisa produced sound work for theatre and live performance including La Mama Theatre, Short & Sweet Sydney, Budinski’s Theatre of Exile, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Writer's Festival, National Young Writers Festival / TINA, Noise, The Bridge Festival, and Celebrating Women Festival.

Lisa’s two decades of work with spoken word and oral storytelling infuses her work with a distinctive, subtle narrative understanding. As a student of languages and linguistics (completing a Master of Applied Linguistics at University of Melbourne in 2019) Lisa’s ongoing research into the global phenomenon of oral storytelling – its origins and modern incarnations – informs all of her work. Complimentary research into philosophies of deep listening and sound meditation also informs Lisa’s soundscape creation and desire to develop truly immersive listening experiences.

Lisa has been ‘in record’ in fields, forests, deserts and cities for decades, and her recordings find new life and expression in her soundscape work and sound design, as well as her LAPKAT DJ sets and podcasts. Over the years Lisa has experimented with a huge range of recording techniques, from the search for pristine, noiseless captures of environments, to the ‘guerrilla style’ collecting of sounds by whatever means is at hand.

Collaborative sound installations include the Women of the World (WOW) festival's "Women, Art & Politics" residency, White Night Melbourne 2016 (“IDEATION”) and White Night Melbourne 2017 (“The Night Garden” and “The Seadragon's Lair”). In July, August and November 2018 Lisa was in residence working with the 4DSOUND system at the Spatial Sound Institute, Budapest, creating a one-hour installation in collaboration with storytellers and musicians of Hungary and Transylvania. From October 2018 to February 2019 the solo sound installation ||Reflections|| played morning and evening in the MPavilion, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne.

Since 2022 Lisa has designed sound for sensory theatre and installation in Melbourne, co-created with disabled/neurodivergent artists, video artists, sensory theatre producers and set designers, including “The Memory Go Round” at Abbotsford Convent, the DSA Arts House short theatre series, and Weave Movement Theatre’s “Sense of Place” at Dancehouse.

In March 2024 Lisa was in residence at Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland for a month, developing field recording techniques for spatial sound and new solo sound work.