Aria Elizabeth Whitfield

On the sound

Everything you hear starts at the piano & electric guitar and stops there too.

Works

Beneath the Surface

Ephermal Dance

Fleeting Footsteps

Melancholic

Reflective

Shadows and Sunlight

Ups and Downs

House rules

• Make the room quieter than you found it.
• Suggestion over statement. Space over spectacle.
• Keep the mistakes that sound like weather.
• Small music, made carefully, for one listener at a time.

Asked & answered

Who's it for?

Anyone who needs twilight for half an hour. That's the whole audience I'm writing for.

Do you play live?

Rarely, and only in intimate rooms. If you run a small space and want to enquire, get in touch — nothing is scheduled unless it's listed here.

Vinyl / physical?

Nothing pressed at the moment. If that changes it'll be announced here first.

Do you take commissions?

Occasionally, for the right project. Enquiries via the label.

Steeped in New Zealand light — from deep piano to open-horizon guitar.

In new age ambient, the piano & electric guitar is a kind of weather here — it moves through Aotearoa and Māori landscape the way light moves through a room, slowly and without asking.

The records — “Beneath the Surface”, “Ephermal Dance”, “Fleeting Footsteps”, “Melancholic”, “Reflective” and more — are less albums than seasons: each one a long, held breath.

A note on listening

Made for headphones at midnight, or a room with the lights down.

On stage

Performs rarely and only in intimate rooms across New Zealand — small halls, back rooms, someone's front parlour. Nothing large, nothing ticketed widely. For house-concert enquiries, write.

Booking enquiries

Listen & licensing

In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd