Wendy Eisenberg

Songs: Their first record, Time Machine, came out in a very limited edition on HEC Tapes in 2017. It was remastered/reissued a year later on a beautiful Feeding Tube vinyl edition.

Wendy’s music continued to grow as a writer, self-releasing a song-cycle, Dehiscence (2020), in May 2020, that netted them a profile in the Wire. This amazed them, because they never intended to have this music, a collection of demos, live on the internet for more than a week.

Following this, they released the album Auto on Ba Da Bing! in October of 2020 to much acclaim, including a profile in the Washington Post, a feature on Bandcamp Weekly, and a place at the year-end list in the Wire.

Seemingly unable to stop themself, Wendy released an album of banjo songs and hymns, titled Bent Ring, on Dear Life Records in 2021. No guitars, but somehow still a rousing success.

Rock Songs: Though they first came onto the scene in the now defunct band Birthing Hips, Wendy is now 1/3 of a Cerberus titled Editrix. That band released an album called Tell Me I’m Bad on Exploding in Sound in February 2021. Tell Me I’m Bad has received acclaim in The Boston Globe, Pitchfork, and other legacy publications.

Wendy’s playing can be also heard on Strictly Missionary’s record, Heisse Scheisse, in a group with Chris Pitsiokos, Kevin Murray, Nick Neuberg and Richard Lenz.

Improvisations: In October 2018, Wendy released an album of electric trio improvisations entitled The Machinic Unconscious, named after the essay collection by Felix Guattari. That record features Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith on John Zorn’s Tzadik record label.

That same month (same day, actually) they released their first solo acoustic improvisation record on VDSQ, called Its Shape Is Your Touch, named after the Richard Brautigan poem, “Here Is Something Beautiful (etc.”

Both records made Billboard’s Critic’s Choice Top Ten Jazz Records year end list, and received features and attention from NPR, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and Premier Guitar.

Since then, they’ve appeared on records with Shane Parish, Francisco Mela, Stephen Gauci, Carlos Truly, Ron Shalom, Devin Gray, and Jessica Pavone, and performed with Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Miles Okazaki, Matt Mitchell, Caroline Davis, and countless other luminaries.

Wendy is a Roulette commissioned artist for 2022, will be presenting a week at the Stone in October 2022 and 2023, and have received commissions from National Sawdust (2019) and the Jazz Coalition (2020).

They are an active part of the creative music scene, operating in a new trio called Lower Chamber with Allison Miller and Nick Dunston.

Their new album Viewfinder, was released in 2024 on American Dreams Records to incredible acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, The Wire, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more.

Writing: A writer on and around music, Wendy's writing can be found in John Zorn’s Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music, Sound American Ed. 23, and in the Contemporary Music Review. They also, half-secretly, are a poet.

Education: They received an MA in Performance Studies at NYU in 2021, and MM in Contemporary Improvisation at NEC, and a BM at the Eastman School of Music.