A versatile creative musician, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka studied classical double bass and contemporary music. Besides being member of Schallfeld, an international contemporary music group, she plays contemporary and improvised music with a variety of bands, ensembles and collective projects and creates sound for theatre, radio and film. She likes to explore the combination of acoustic and electronic instruments, body, voice and space to create polyphonies and intriguing soundscapes.