Laura Cocks & Weston Olencki
Schedule
Mon, 17 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Shakespeares | Sheffield, EN
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LAURA COCKS / WESTON OLENCKI (usa/berlin)As an instrument activated via buzzing, the flute’s scales and acoustic systems are reconfigured; Cocks and Olencki submerge into the instabilities of this reconfiguration, building a world of internal physical disturbance that shifts, envelopes, and becomes quasi-environmental.
£8 standard ticket, £6 concessions
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Laura Cocks (they/she) is a flutist with “febrile instrumental prowess” (The New York Times), who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music and “creates intricate, spellbinding works that have a visceral physicality to them” (Foxy Digitalis).Laura is the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), with whom Laura makes musics "that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (WIRE Magazine). They are also a member of Talea Ensemble, noted for their “astonishing fluidity,” “compelling lucidity, ” and “precise control” (The New York Times). As a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, they have performed with musicians such as DoYeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Timothy Angulo, yuniya edi kwon, Luke Stewart, Wendy Eisenberg, Lester St. Louis, Brandon Lopez, Madison Greenstone, International Contemporary Ensemble, Sun Ra Arkestra, Wet Ink Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, and many others in NYC and abroad.Their recent solo album, field anatomies (Carrier Records), noted as one of Stereogum’s top-ten experimental releases of the year, charted in the Billboard top ten “Classical Crossover” releases and was praised for its “superhuman physicality” and “disciplined patience” (Bandcamp Best Contemporary Release and Experimental Release).
Weston Olencki is a composer, musician, and audio engineer; originally from South Carolina; living and working now in Berlin. He is currently making work focused around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of vernacular art-making. His recent music deals with the non-linear relationships between experimental sound, geography, historicity, and (mostly American) musical traditions. Weston has previously performed and presented work at the Borealis Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Musica Nova (as a soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic), Lampo, Ghent Jazz Festival, Black Mountain College, philharmonie luxembourg, Squeaky Wheel, Festival Musica, kalvfestivalen, the American Academy in Rome, Roulette Intermedium, Jalopy Theatre, Frequency Festival, Pioneer Works, and the OPTION series, & was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis from the 2016 Darmstadt Ferienkurse.
EXPANDING FOAM ~ MURRAY ROYSTON-WARD (sheff/nottm)
Expanding Foam has grown out of sculptural art practice to incorporate a range of synthesisers, crude electronics, and found objects. Personal journeys through time, place, and regional histories. Releases on Tone Burst amongst others.
Murray Royston-Ward - Deep-dive snare feedback collaborating with wonky circuits - Tripping on Wires/The House Organ/Jehova’s Fitness/et al.
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Where is it happening?
Shakespeares, Sheffield, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
