Broadsides | Weston Olencki & Lars Tuchel

WESTON OLENCKI:
In support of their recent LP release Broadsides (Outside Time, 2025), Weston will perform a set on electromechanical banjo. Building on their work in Verd Mont (SUPERPANG, 2021) and Old Time Music (Tripticks Tapes, 2022), Olencki’s interpretation of the bluegrass standard “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” captures the euphoria of melancholy in motion. The permutational plucks of banjo are bounced around the frame by a computer, its pitches determined within algorithmic sequences and transcriptions of classic three-finger licks. Accompanied by the motoric percussion and humid summer field recordings, the tonalities of old-time are smeared and stretched until all that’s audible is the insistence that Heaven might be real.

LARS TUCHEL:

“If you listen closely, you can hear sounds sometimes…”

Der in Graz lebende Computermusiker und Klangkünstler Lars Tuchel lädt ein zu einem Konzert, in dem genau das im Vordergrund steht: Das Hinhören, Zuhören und Dazugehören. Denn Hören ist hierbei nicht nur das passive Aufnehmen von Klängen brav auf der Bank, sondern ist zu verstehen als gemeinsamer sozialer Akt. Dabei hört und “spielt” der gebürtige Schweizer eine kleine Werkauswahl aus seinem Schaffen der letzten fünf Jahre. 
Was sich dabei entfaltet, ist manchmal spektral, manchmal dronig, manchmal algorithmisch, manchmal audio-visuell aber fast immer spannend. All diese Elemente ergeben zusammen eine Klangwelt, die zugleich tief durchdacht und wunderbar unvorhersehbar ist – und ja, hin und wieder auch spannend. Mehr darf man von experimenteller elektronischer Musik eigentlich nicht erwarten. Aber keine Sorge: Es wird wahrscheinlich sogar meistens spannend. 

“...most of the time, actually.”

Biographien: 

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).

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, the American Academy in Rome, Roulette Intermedium, Jalopy Theatre, Fylkingen, Pioneer Works, and more. They have held guest residencies at the University of Huddersfield, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, Northwestern, and have been a visiting artist at CalArts (2018), Stoveworks (2023), suddenlyLISTEN (2024), and EMS Stockholm (2025). 

Their solo discography includes Verd Mont (SUPERPANG, 2021), Old Time Music (Tripticks Tapes, 2022), pearls ground down to powder (Full Spectrum, 2024), I went to the dance (Longform Editions, 2024) and Broadsides (Outside Time, 2025), with other recording projects released by PAGANS, Dinzu Artefacts, Lobby Art, Astral Spirits, Out of Your Head, Sound American, HatHut, and Astral Spirits. They are an active member of RAGE THORMBONES and APPARAT, and perform in many contexts on low brass instruments, winds, banjo, and electronics.

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According to official information, Lars Tuchel was born in so-called Switzerland back in the nineties, keeping busy with composing music, coding music and consuming music ever since. After a prematurely aborted career as a programmer and successfully dropping out of a philosophy degree, Lars has subsequently focused on creating ear- and occasionally soul-shattering noise with a laptop and whatever loudspeakers happen to be available.