Weston Olencki + Ava Koohbor

Name: Weston Olencki + Ava Koohbor
Start: 2026-06-06T20:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-06-06T23:00:00-07:00
Location: 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States

Schedule

Sat Jun 06 2026 at 08:30 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States | San Francisco, CA

In support of their latest LP *Broadsides* (2025), Weston will perform a two-part solo set on prepared autoharp and electromechanical banjo. Building on their work in *Verd Mont* (2021) and *Old Time Music* (2022), *Broadsides* distills down a long journey made through the American South, weaving together folkloric abstraction and autobiographical memory into a rich sonic quilt. The work features an interpretation of the bluegrass standard “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” which captures this euphoria of melancholy in motion. Here, the tonalities of old-time are smeared and stretched until all that’s audible is the insistence that Heaven might be real.
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).
Ava Koohbor is an artist, instrument-builder, and writer based in San Francisco, whose work transforms furniture, traditional instruments, and cultural artifacts into vectors of sound production and activation. At The Lab, she performs "Korkori," an eletroacoustic backgammon composition constructed from a backgammon board created by her father during the Iran-Iraq War. Korkori transforms that personal and historical object into an electroacoustic backgammon board—built by an Iranian woman and played by two Middle Eastern women.