Weston Olencki is an artist and musician from South Carolina, living now in Berlin.
Their projects position musical instruments as sites of cultural inscription, and work 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), Black Mountain College, philharmonie luxembourg, HKW, Festival Musica, kalvfestivalen, the American Academy in Rome, Roulette Intermedium, Jalopy Theatre, Frequency Festival, Pioneer Works, and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis from the 2016 Darmstadt Ferienkurse.
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). Various recording projects, both as a leader and side-person, have been released by HatHut, Sound American, Full Spectrum, New Amsterdam, Clean Feed, Longform Editions, Dinzu Artefacts, SUPERPANG, Tripticks Tapes, KAIROS, Lobby Art, Sound Holes, Astral Spirits, PAGANS, Out of Your Head, and more. They are an active member of RAGE THORMBONES and APPARAT, and perform in various contexts on low brass instruments, winds, banjo, and electronics. They also run events and sound at KM28.