Wendy Eisenberg is a guitarist, banjo player, singer, improviser and composer. They have written critical essays on music, spatiality, gender, and representation for John Zorn's Arcana series, Sound American, and the Contemporary Music Review. Their practice is concerned with the body in improvised music and the genealogical study of improvisation and its techniques. They are uniquely concerned with the positioning of instruments as machines and means of production, and of the moments in which music becomes labor.

Areas of concentration/study:

Sound studies, improvisation, the sociality and poetics of music and the instrument, gender theory

Why PS @ NYU?

 I chose to study at Performance Studies because it feels like the only place where I can engage with my work on a theoretical level to the extent that the theory becomes a new aesthetic piece itself.