Long Light Launches Memorial Day Weekend at Art Omi in Ghent

Saturday, May 23, 5–8pm | Ghent, NY | Free, RSVP encouraged

Art Omi launches its Long Light series on May 23, opening up the sculpture and architecture park for extended Saturday evening hours through Labor Day weekend and will host evening events throughout the summer. The first concert features two New York-based musicians who don't sound much alike but both operate comfortably in the space between genres.

Wendy Eisenberg is a Brooklyn guitarist and singer-songwriter who studied at the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory and has spent the past decade as a fixture of the city's experimental music scene, playing in Editrix, Squanderers, and the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet while building a solo catalog that moves between free jazz, art-rock, noise, and folk. Their new self-titled album, out this spring on Joyful Noise, is their most song-forward work yet — co-produced with Mari Rubio and featuring bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Ryan Sawyer, it trades some of the sprawl of 2024's "Viewfinder" for tighter, stranger pop structures. Spin called it a record that "softens their sound but still goes hard."

Elori Saxl (pictured above) works at the intersection of minimalism, ambient music, and field recording. Her 2021 album "The Blue of Distance" combined processed recordings of wind and water with analog synthesizers and a chamber orchestra, written partly in the Adirondacks in summer and partly on a frozen Lake Superior island in winter. The result landed somewhere between Steve Reich and a nature documentary score, but with more going on underneath. She has composed for This American Life, SFMOMA, the New Yorker, and Patagonia, among others.

Food from Chatham Provisions, and beer, wine, and mocktails in the cafe. Future Long Light concerts are scheduled for June 20, July 25, and September 5.

Art Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY. Free. RSVP at artomi.org.

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