Flautist Laura Cocks (of acclaimed American new music ensemble TAK) performs music from their new album FATHM, and composer Weston Olencki diffuses multichannel electronic work from their album Verd Mont.
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About the event
Laura Cocks will perform work from FATHM, co-released by Relative Pitch and Out of Your Head Records. Emphasizing a dynamic and immediate physicality, their work reconfigures the flutes' acoustics and tuning systems, submerging the instrument into instabilities and building a world of internal physical disturbance that becomes quasi-environmental as it shifts along the body of the flutes.
To open the evening, Weston Olencki will present two works from their 2021 SUPERPANG release, Verd Mont, diffused live for the first time. Using a handmade archive of artifacts and memories from living in rural New England, the pair of works weave together a myriad of sound sources to reflect upon an experimentalism of rural space and time.
Programme:
Weston Olencki, Vernon L.M.
Weston Olencki, witched windows
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Laura Cocks: selections from FATHM
A thread held between your fingers
to beget
FAVN
Illinois
to outstretch
Biographies:
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, Weston Olencki, 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). Laura can be heard on labels such as ECM, Denovali Records, Catalytic Sound, TAK editions, Tripticks Tapes, Carrier Records, Chambray Records, Double Whammy Whammy, New Focus Records, Sound American, Orange Mountain Music, Supertrain, Gold Bolus, Hideous Replica, Sideband Records, and many others.
Weston Olencki is a composer, musician, and audio engineer originally from South Carolina, living now in Berlin. Their recent music deals with the non-linear relationships and unexpected resonances between experimental sound, geography, historicity, and (mostly American) musical traditions. They have presented work at the Borealis Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Lampo, Black Mountain College, Roulette Intermedium, Jalopy Theatre, among others. Various recording projects have been released by Longform Editions, Dinzu Artefacts, SUPERPANG, Tripticks Tapes, PAGANS, Full Spectrum, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Astral Spirits.
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Performance Space
Northampton Square
College Building
280 St John St
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom