Weston Olencki: ADC/DAC: On meeting points between instrumental performance and compositional coding @HuddCeReNeM

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Weston Olencki discusses his work as a trombonist with live electronics and Max/MSP

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Presented at the Creative Coding Symposium at Electric Spring 2019

Recorded and edited by Sam Gillies

/// ABSTRACT

I will talk about the intersections of my work as a trombonist/performer & computer musician and how approaching each role through the perspective of the other yields novel approaches and contexts to both activities. We will engage with the works presented the preceding evening (SOLO WORKS for various brass instruments and chime array), examining how coding methods and digital design influences my acoustic instrumental writing and how the interdependent bodily systems of brass instruments inspire ‘porousness’ and material malleability in live electronic practice.

/// BIOGRAPHY

Weston Olencki is a South Carolina-born musician working at the intersections of improvisation, contemporary composition & extended instrumental performance, new media technologies, and noise-based practices. He has presented work at the Borealis Festival, ISSUE Project Room, REDCAT, bludenzer tage zeitgemäßer musik, Ghent Jazz Festival, Blanton Museum of Art, Squeaky Wheel, Mostly Mozart, the American Academy in Rome, Frequency Festival, Indexical, and the OPTION series, and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for performance from the 2016 Darmstadt Ferienkurse. Weston is an active member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble member on low brass instruments, modular synthesizers, and various electronic media.

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