Laura Steenberge + Weston Olencki

Laura Steenberge and Weston Olencki bring a new conception of what a wind instrument could be to Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz. Steenberge's new work Chant Etudes imagines an era when the idea of a musical instrument was not yet fully formed. Over the course of the performance, she explores the sounds inherent and available in simple objects, paired with fragments of actual instruments. Olencki, on the other hand, performs composer Michelle Lou's "unflinching sheet of noise" HoneyDripper, for trombone, sheet metal, transducers, electronics, and chains of distortion and amplification. Both of these artists are not to be missed.