Live @ LOW END | Weston Olencki

Weston Olencki 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).

Who's playing

Weston Olencki is an artist and musician from South Carolina now living in Berlin. Their work moves fluidly between experimental sound, traditional musics, and shifting ideas of space and time; Bemis notes that Olencki performs in many contexts on low brass instruments, winds, banjo, and electronics.

What to expect

This Live @ LOW END performance centers an artist whose projects examine musical instruments as more than sound-making tools: as objects shaped by culture, memory, and use. The setting is LOW END, Bemis Center’s lower-level venue for sound art and experimental music, designed for close listening with custom seating, theatrical lighting, and professional audio equipment.

Why go

For Omaha listeners interested in nontraditional music, the event offers a focused encounter with an artist whose solo recordings include Verd Mont, Old Time Music, pearls ground down to powder, I went to the dance, and Broadsides. Olencki has also performed internationally at festivals and venues including Borealis Festival, Counterflows, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Lampo, Märzmusik, Roulette Intermedium, and Pioneer Works.