Happy Hour Live Music Program: Tamar Eisenman and Kaki King present SEI
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Rubenstein Commons

Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's "guitar god" list, is a true iconoclast. Dubbed by Rolling Stone as "a genre unto herself," Brooklyn-based Kaki King has proven to be just that. Her career has taken her all over the world, sharing stages with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, contributing music to award-winning films (Sean Penn's Into The Wild), and performing at the London Jazz Festival, and the Paris Les Femmes s'en Melent.

Tamar Eisenman is an acclaimed guitarist, singer-songwriter, and composer who has released seven official studio albums and received an Emmy nomination for the best original soundtrack in Israel for "Haramatkalim" (Chiefs of Staff) documentary series. She is working on a new musical project that investigates the historical and material evolution of guitar strings. Eisenman, Visitor in the School of Historical Studies, presents a versatile, emotionally rich musical attitude with energetic and nuanced guitar work. Her latest release, Morningside, is an instrumental EP comprising six unique pieces that reflect on expanding genre traditions and her own path as guitarist. 

As originally composed, SEI (Italian for “six” and also “you are”), features 16 guitars, transforming the stage and forming a constellation of sound. The heart of SEI is music composed through choreographed movement; each note in SEI born from physical motion, creating a rich, embodied musical language that blurs the line between composition and dance. The music in SEI travels between different reflections of our day to day life: “You are” coming to life over and over again, whether it’s through love, hate, parenthood, creativity, and/or compassion. With only guitars, tailored tuning, and synced movement by the players, SEI is a deep and playful dialogue of guitars, weaved through body language and masterful guitar skills.

*In this stripped down presentation of SEI, we invite you to learn about our journey of the SEI composition process and performance. SEI's movement is a tool to both compose with your body and approach the guitar in new ways, reflecting a fun and deep journey that explores musical and physical possibilities with guitars.

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