Studies In Loyalty: Wendy Eisenberg with Ryan Sawyer & Lester St. Louis
$30 door, $25 advance ($20 student/seniors age 65 & over)
- Wendy Eisenberg
- Ryan Sawyer, drums
- Lester St. Louis, cello
Improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg will debut new song-environments for improvising trio, featuring Ryan Sawyer (drums) and Lester St. Louis (cello), as part of their Roulette Residency.
"I had a sequence of three dreams in the fall of 2022," writes Eisenberg. "In one, Ryan and I, who had never deeply met, were playing my songs, refracting them into a web of ropes of light. The second was that Lester was playing the cello like it was the shadow crosshatched under a drawing of a huge granite sphere. The third was that the band was called Studies in Loyalty, after a book I haven't read that I had seen in passing in a store. We will be playing old and new songs I have written and we will be improvising around and beyond them. The first time we played was at Union Pool, where Nate Wooley had gotten the flu and they needed somebody to fill in for him. It felt like this trio had been on the road for twenty years."
This peformance will be presented both in person at Roulette Intermedium and livestreamed via the Roulette YouTube channel. The livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Click "More info" for further details.
About Wendy Eisenberg
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.
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/About Lester St. Louis, cello
Lester St. Louis (b.1993) is a New York-born and -based composer, improviser, cellist, sound designer, and curator. His work traverses through performance, installation, curation, artistic research, and recording. His works are rooted in dynamic environments of improvisation both sonically and socially, ecstatic sound worlds. flow and interaction. He has performed internationally throughout the U.S, the E.U, Canada, China, and in South America; and collaborates with artists such as Chris Williams [under the moniker HxH], Edi Kwon Jaimie Branch, Dre A. Hočevar, Charmaine Lee, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Emeka Okereke, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, TAK Ensemble, The International Contemporary Ensemble, Random International, Superblue, Terrence Nance, Found Sound Nation, Wet Ink Ensemble, and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as The JACK Quartet, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh, String Noise, and Ghost Ensemble, among others. He is deeply excited to see what new ventures and collaborations the future may bring and those that will be made.
https://metropolisensemble.org/artists-collection/lester-st-louis