Name: invitro: weston olencki & laura cocks (more artists tba)
Start: 2025-02-15T20:30:00+01:00
Location: rue crickx 13, 1060 Brussels, Belgium

invitro: weston olencki & laura cocks (more artists tba)

in vitro #22
weston olencki is a composer, trombonist, and instrument builder based in berlin who mostly doesn't play the flute. laura cocks is a flutist based in new york city who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music. music for two flutes is two pieces for two flutes. through various deconstructions of the instrument and years of friendship, we pull uncanny resonances from these modest means - locating sites of intensity and spectral saturation where they aren't always found.
1. ceòl meadhonach
from the kilberry book of ceol meadhonach, published in 1908 by captain john campbell and archibald campbell:
"the music of the highland bagpipe is usually said to be divided into three categories: ceol mor, the "big music" or piobaireachd; ceol beag, the "little music," that is quicksteps and dance music, and ceol meadhonach, the "middle music" which lies between the other two, and consists of such tunes as are neither constructed in the measure of piobaireachd, nor adapted for the quick march or dance."
2. slub
as an instrument activated via buzzing, the flute’s scales and acoustic systems are reconfigured; slub is the act of submerging into the instabilities of this reconfiguration, building a world of internal physical disturbance that shifts, envelopes, and becomes quasi-environmental as it moves along the body of the flutes.