Weston Olencki / niki afsar / Pneumwrights (Alma Laprida, Jamal Moore, Samuel Burt)

Name: Weston Olencki / niki afsar / Pneumwrights (Alma Laprida, Jamal Moore, Samuel Burt)
Start: 2025-10-16T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012

Schedule

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012 | Takoma Park, MD

Thursday October 16 * 7pm * $15-30 * TICKETS
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Join us for a night of outward-bound music celebrating the release of Broadsides, the new album by Berlin-based sound artist and composer Weston Olencki. The album is the first LP release on DC-based label Outside Time. Each artist's work speaks to concepts of tradition and innovation in striking, unique ways. Olencki will perform work from Broadsides, Pneumwrights will improvise, and niki afsar will perform a composition entitled "baraye nika (for Nika)".
Presented by Outside Time
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).
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.
Weston has 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); other collaborative recording projects have been 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.
niki afsar
'i am a nonbinary/femme, iranian-american writer and interdisclipinary artist. i was born in los angeles to tehran-born parents and learned to speak farsi in my mid 20s. since 2015 i have lived and worked in new york city, tehran, the washington dc area, and western massachusetts.
my work explores ideas of fluidity and longing within language, hybrid/myriad identities, and mental health.
my art and politics are shaped by questions of identity and liberation. i am in the process of developing my artistic practice as a site for reimagination and world-building, with the goal of creating performance and artistic spaces that are collaborative and collective while also specific and personal.
my work explores not only longing but also the lack that persists in my relationships to language and mythologies of identity. these liminal spaces of void are where desire lives. they are essential for change and reinvention.
i employ a number of mediums including devised movement and performance; poetry and text; live singing and recording using a vocal loop machine; sound collaging; and more recently, mirror work.'
Pneumwrights
Baltimore area improvisers and instrument builders show off years of craft in a special performance featuring the trumpet marine, many homemade flutes and percussion, and the daxophone. Alma Laprida, Jamal Moore, and Samuel Burt are all active members of Baltimore's experimental music scene. With backgrounds in jazz, classical, and medieval music, they are all capable of being quite melodic. In an improvised context, they redirect musical attention towards timbre and texture, exploring the peculiarities of their instruments that pull away from traditional music making.
Alma Laprida is a multi-disciplinary artist, originally from Argentina, who composes, improvises, performs (voice and many instruments), and creates works for video, radio, and gallery installations. She came to Maryland in 2021. Last year, she built three more trumpet marines to form a quartet ensemble. Her most recent album Pitch Dark and Trembling was released in 2024 by Outside Time.
almalaprida.wordpress.com | Instagram
Jamal Moore is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator in Baltimore, Maryland. Akebulan Arkestra, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, and Mojuba Duo are some of Jamal’s current ensembles that he leads. His studies include the California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), the Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), and the Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000). He builds his own flutes and percussion objects.
saankhdjed.com
Samuel Burt is a composer, improviser, educator, and performs in Baltimore, Maryland. He frequently plays clarinets and electronics. He's been building daxophones since 2011, based on the original designs from Hans Reichel. This has led to explorations of other friction idiophones like the skatchbox.
samuelburt.com | Bandcamp

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6950 Maple St NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20012, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012-2014, United States, Takoma Park

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