DYLAN KERR, WESTON OLENCKI — Duo for Breath (for voice and trombone)

Performance – Concert – Premiere
Presented by YELLOW SOLO at EBENSPERGER
Fichtebunker, Fichtestrasse 6, 10967 Berlin

August 31, Sunday
Door opens: 8 pm
Starts: 8:30 pm
Donation-based admission: 10,-

“Duo for Breath (for voice and trombone)” is a new work composed site-specifically by Dylan Kerr for the Fichtebunker, performed by Dylan Kerr (voice) and Weston Olencki (trombone). Building on Kerr’s “Solo for Breath”, the piece explores breath’s timbral and spectral qualities through extended techniques. The work moves between unpitched sounds and moments of consonance, incorporating overtone singing, trombone multiphonics and psychoacoustic phenomena. Performers move through the space during the work, activating the bunker’s resonant frequencies and allowing its unique acoustics to shape the sound.

Dylan Kerr (b. 1996, Ireland) is an artist working between performance and sound. Their practice is deeply attuned to place, often creating works that engage with the unique resonant qualities and histories of specific environments. They combine process-based methods, microtonality, and extended vocal techniques to explore psychoacoustic phenomena such as beating, interference patterns, and the interplay between the voice and space.

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Weston Olencki (b. 1992, South Carolina) is an artist and musician working 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).

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Special thanks to Péter Barta and the EBENSPERGER Team – Patrick Ebensperger, Leonie Rösler, Johannes Schüchner and Marlene Sichelschmidt.