flier by Terence Hannum

Saturday December 21 * doors at 3pm, music at 4 * $15-20 * TICKETS

Nouvelles explorations pour la guitare et la musique expérimentale - Volume 1

Wendy Eisenberg x More Eaze
Susan Alcorn
Emily Robb
Jeff Barsky

Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review.

more eaze is the long running project of composer/multi instrumentalist mari maurice. her work touches upon myriad genres and often explores themes of gender, identity, perception, and the mundane. her compositions have been widely released on a number of international labels including orange milk, astral spirits, phinery, and lillerne tapes among others. as a performer, maurice regularly collaborates with various composers and improvisers such as claire rousay, michael pisaro, richard kamerman, seth graham, and christina carter.

One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics. Though known for her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, Chris Cutler, the London Improvisors Orchestra, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock and Leila Bourdreuil, George Burt, Evan Parker, Caroline Kraabel, Michael Formanek, Zane Campbell, and Mary Halvorson among others. In 2017 she received the Baker Artist Award and in 2018, along with saxophonist Joe McPhee, the Instant Award in Improvised Music. Her album “Pedernal, released in 2020, was included in several “Best of theYear” lists including the New York Times.

Emily Robb is a Philadelphia based musician who has been part of the rock underground and experimental scenes for over a decade. Emily has been a composer, collaborator, and multi-instrumentalist in several bands including Lantern, Louie Louie, Storks, Cold Hands and Astute Palate. She also records, mixes and produces music at her small studio in Philadelphia, Suddenly Studio. “...absolutely fuzzed-out and deranged playing that’ll take you straight from the gutter to redemption and back.” - Yoni Kroll

Jeff Barsky, of DC bands Bed Maker and Shadow Riot, among countless other collaborations, moonlights as a meditative guitar improvisor. “…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio, improvised melodies clamoring over drones like they’re peaks in a mountain range…monolithic, moving, fluid and entirely lovely.” – Tiny Mix Tapes