Judy Dunaway/Ricardo Arias and Wendy Eisenberg

Both RICARDO ARIAS and JUDY DUNAWAY have separately specialized in free improvisation and experimental music on the latex balloon for decades, making it their main instrument. Arias’ background as a percussionist led him to develop the “balloon kit”(“batería global”), and Dunaway’s background as a guitarist led her to approach each size and shape of balloon as a solo instrument. Arias and Dunaway will combine their expertise to explore and expand the details of their shared world and present heretofore unimagined sonic landscapes. This concert marks the second meeting of these two avant-garde virtuosi.

WENDY EISENBERG is an improviser and composer who performs on guitar, banjo, voice and electronics. Her work is about the ways that visual and sociological space inform the musical signs of time and frequency. Her compositions and instrumental technique are developed from her involvement with the traditions of free jazz, punk, heavy metal, avant-garde composition and art songs. She was in the band Birthing Hips and has multiple solo projects, some fully improvised, some featuring modern guitar and banjo composition, and some song-based.

This program is supported in part by the Universidad de Los Andes and the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and admistrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture.