Fire Over Heaven returns, in this new Gregorian calendar year 2020, with a double bill featuring Luisa Muhr / Wendy Eisenberg Duo and Darius VanSluytman...Multi-disciplinary artist Luisa Muhr and guitar phenom Wendy Eisenberg have been honing their ongoing collaboration over the past year or two thru live performances and residencies which highlight the terse interplay between Muhr's embodied physical/vocal presence and Eisenberg's crystalline fretboard workouts. Their improvisational chemistry suggests a kinship with the famous duets of Derek Bailey and Min Tanaka or a species of distilled Judson Church-era happening, with Eisenberg's static stage presence and multi-directional guitar playing being the perfect foil for Muhr's rangy space traversing calisthenics. Muhr's activities include projects spanning theater, dance, opera and improvisation, as well as organizing the wonderful Women Between Arts concert series at the New School. Eisenberg has made it clear that she is a guitarist to watch, beginning with her work in Boston noise-rock outfit Birthing Hips, and continuing thru solo outings full of art songs or acoustic improvisations, or her new trio with Ches Smith and Trevor Dunn as rhythm section...Vocalist, poet, actor Darius VanSluytman is best known for his arresting vocals for early 00's Afropunk crew No Surrender, but he turns up in many odd corners of the pop, experimental and poetics worlds as well. Some of you may have caught him as part of Jessica Kinney's vocal ensemble at James Cohan Gallery last September, his guttural explosions of distressed word/sound made him hard to miss and prompted me to ask him to play Fire Over Heaven on the spot!...Lots more great music to come in 2020.

C.C.
organizer, Fire Over Heaven

7:30pm doors
8:00pm Darius VanSluytman
9:00pm Luisa Muhr / Wendy Eisenberg Duo

Luisa Muhr / Wendy Eisenberg Duo
Luisa Muhr is a multi-lingual, multi- and interdisciplinary performer, improvisor, director, installation artist, sound artist, and theater maker, originally from Vienna (Austria), lives and works in New York, and is at home in the experimental/avant-garde. As a performer she specializes in performance, movement, vocal, sound, installation, and theater arts. Luisa is also the creator and curator of New York's leading interdisciplinary womxn/non-binary artists series Women Between Arts at The New School and artistic director of FENGARI Works. Luisa was an Artist in Residence at Pioneer Works in 2019 and has worked with artists such as Claire Chase, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sarah Hennies, Shelley Hirsch, Frank London, Arturo O’Farrill, Peter Schumann, and John Zorn. She is currently writing a new opera with six-times Grammy winner Arturo O'Farrill.
www.luisamuhr.com
https://www.womenbetweenarts.com/

Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo player, songwriter and poet who uses the languages of free jazz, metal and art song to create a personal expression. Their work has led them to collaborations with Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn, John Zorn, Anna Webber, and many others on the vanguard of modern improvised music today. Wendy’s debut record as an improviser, “Its Shape Is Your Touch,” came out in October 2018. Her trio, “The Machinic Unconscious,” with Ches Smith and Trevor Dunn, released their debut album on Tzadik that same month. Both records made Billboard’s Critic’s Choice Top Ten Jazz Records year end list, and received features and attention from NPR and National Sawdust.
www.wendyeisenberg.com

Darius VanSluytman (Low Wave, No Surrender).
Darius VanSluytman is a vocalist, poet and composer who began his career performing in the L.E.S. and Williamsburg scenes in the late 90s. As a vocalist, he has been part of electronic group No Surrender, and poet Mike Ladd’s The Majesticons/Infesticons group. His work as a performer and composer has been commissioned for various productions staging at The Whitney Museum, The Frist Museum, Il Teatro Manzoni, The Kitchen, and other spaces. He has worked with luminaries of modern experimental and popular music including Raz Mesinai, Jessika Kenney, and Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio. His most recent project, the synth/spoken-word duo Low Wave, is preparing the release of a new album due out in February of 2020.
https://lowwave.bandcamp.com/