first edition premiered by Yarn/Wire on June 20, 2021
Ridgewood, Queens, NY

revised version premiered by Yarn/Wire on April 23, 2023
NUNC! 5 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

pianos: Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer
percussion: Russell Greenberg and Sae Hashimoto

It's All Real, for two piano, two percussion

(lamentations) for éliane

St Swithin's Day Storm

Before The Storm (feat. Dr Nigel Meredith)

Tilt Brass performs overlays/smear in 2015, somewhere in New York City or Brooklyn

overlays/smear (2015)

Commission: Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschingen Musiktage 2022

Live recording of the world première, Musica Nova Helsinki, 3 March 2023.

Performers:
Mattie Barbier, trombone
Weston Olencki, trombone
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Janne Nisonen, conductor

Photo: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

where the dark earth bends (2022, rev. 2023), for RAGE Thormbones, orchestra, and electronics

commissioned by and written for TAK Ensemble. 

live recording from first performance at Roulette Intermedium: May 21, 2024 (Brooklyn, NY) 

Laura Cocks, flutes 
Madison Greenstone, clarinets 
Charlotte Mundy, voice, amplifier, tesla coil 
Marina Kifferstein, violin 
Ellery Trafford, percussion 

much more information here: 
www.westonolencki.com/when-the-great-fires

when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean [2022-24]

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

The purple fuchsia bled upon the ground. (2023–24)
Commission: Westdeutschen Rundfunk & Wien Modern

Live Recording: Pierre-Laurent Aimard & WDR Orchestra (cond. Elena Schwarz), 12 May 2024, Cologne

Photo: WDR/Holger Talinski

The purple fuchsia bled upon the ground. (2023–24), for piano and orchestra

lapidary waves B

N.O. Rising by Kim Scharnberg. Performed by Michael Brest, Will Timmons and Eunae Han

lapidary waves B

mattiebarbier

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