Noveller is the solo project of Sarah Lipstate, a guitarist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Lipstate has an extensive performance background, having played in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army and been a part of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. In March 2008, she joined the Brooklyn art-rock band Parts & Labor as their guitarist, contributing to their critically acclaimed album, Receivers, and participating in numerous U.S. and European tours before departing in July 2009. As Noveller, she has toured with notable acts such as Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds. Currently, Lipstate is collaborating with Carla Bozulich (of Evangelista) on an improvised duo release for No Fun Productions.

In 2008, Lipstate was featured in the Underground at the Abrons performance series at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan. That December, she performed at the Un Son Par Là, Music of Today festival in Nîmes, France. In March 2009, she took part in the revival of Rhys Chatham and Karole Armitage’s “Drastic-Classicism” during the Think Punk! program at The Kitchen in New York City. Following this, she joined Chatham and a cast of guitarists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to perform his minimalist punk piece “Guitar Trio.” Additionally, Lipstate was one of 200 guitarists in Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail,” which premiered at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park in August 2009. In October of the same year, she debuted a new hand-painted 16mm film loop during a live set on the rooftop of the X Initiative, co-presented by the Manhattan New Music Project and the X Initiative. Later, in November, she performed with musician and choreographer Nancy Garcia in the premiere of Garcia’s “Be The Climb” at The Kitchen, and opened several dates for the Jesus Lizard during their European and U.S. reunion tour. In February 2010, she debuted her improvised guitar duo with Carla Bozulich at The Stone in New York City. In March 2010, Noveller toured the U.S. as a supporting act for Xiu Xiu.

Lipstate's debut LP, Paint on the Shadows, was released by No Fun Productions in April 2009, which she supported with a performance at No Fun Fest in Brooklyn. The following September, the label released her full-length CD, Red Rainbows, and she performed at No Fun Fest Sweden in Stockholm. In 2009, she also released a split LP with Aidan Baker (of Nadja) through the Canadian label Divorce Records. Her most recent album, Desert Fires, is available on CD via her own label, Saffron Recordings.

In addition to her music career, Lipstate's short films have been showcased at the SXSW film festival in both 2006 and 2007, where she received the “Diamond in the Rough Cut” award for exceptional emerging filmmaker at Cinematexas in 2006. Her short film, Memory Scars, screened at the Reel Venus Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in October 2008. She premiered a new short film, Interior Variations, at the New Museum in New York as part of No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image in May, which also screened at the 12th Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival in Japan that November. Lipstate's short films were highlighted in the Women of NY Cinema screening at the 2009 NY Eye + Ear Festival at the 92Y Tribeca, and Interior Variations was featured in the ‘New York Avant Cinema Series’ at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival in April 2010.

Previously, she has performed with Cold Cave, Parts & Labor, One Umbrella, and Sands. Lipstate earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2006.