Olencki, Weston
is an artist and musician from South Carolina, living now in Berlin. Their projects position musical instruments as sites of cultural inscription, working fluidly between experimental sound, traditional musics, and their various space/time(s). Weston has previously performed at the Borealis Festival, Counterflows, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Lampo, Musica Nova (as a soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic), MärzMusik, Black Mountain College, Philharmonie Luxembourg, HKW, Festival Musica, American Academy in Rome, Roulette Intermedium, Jalopy Theatre, Fylkingen, Pioneer Works. They were awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in 2016.