Album release tour concert : Hopeful Monster, music by Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly

Eve Egoyan (acoustic and augmented piano) and Mauricio Pauly (chromaharp, lapsteel, live sampling and processing).

Eve shadows the acoustic piano with a virtual piano and audio samples to augment and extend its sonic and expressive range in newly imagined ways. Mauricio performs using multiple samplers tuned for different modes of live capture, manipulation and effects processing of his amplified instruments and of Eve’s pianos.

The intimate musical partnership between Egoyan and Pauly is borderline miraculous. Their exchanges feel spontaneous inasmuch as they radiate urgency and wonder, however they’re also deeply grounded in a distinctive sense of navigational focus.