Events Calendar

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. The poetic, formally daring folk songs of her new album Wendy Eisenberg comprise their most certain vision yet, creating a quietly euphoric atmosphere while examining “happiness, love, and memory with a forensic curiosity (Pitchfork).

A master of extended technique and ardently cerebral composition, pianist Lisa Cay Miller is “making some of the most intricate and beautiful music that can be heard in Vancouver today” (The Georgia Straight). Her recent recording 682/681 documents her work in duos and trios with some of the Amsterdam improv scene’s greats, including Ig Henneman, Anne La Berge, John Dikeman, and Wilbert De Joode. The album perfectly encapsulates Miller’s artistry: intense, diverse improvisations, and an uncompromising focus on using timbre, texture, form, and function in the service of brilliant abstraction and passionate expression.

Solo sets will be followed by a short duo collaboration and artist talk about form in music, presented in association with IICSI at the University of British Columbia.