Distractfold present the first instalment in a series of two exciting evenings of contemporary music that they’re bringing to venues in Manchester and London featuring renowned New York-based trombonist and composer, Weston Olencki.

The evenings programme includes works by Anna Kurson, Hanna Hartman, Weston Olencki and Santiago Díez Fischer as well as a post-concert Q&A aimed at providing important insight and context often missing from live music events.

This session will be hosted by internationally renowned composer Emily Howard.

UK-based ensemble, Distractfold, are a group of performers, composers and curators coming from different continents and backgrounds, They perform acoustic, mixed and electroacoustic music of their peers, alongside music of the more established composers with whom they have formed close collaborations and friendships.

Weston Olencki is a South Carolina-born musician working at the intersections of improvisation, contemporary composition & extended instrumental performance, new media technologies, and noise-based practices.

“A wild, exhilarating, disturbing picture of our pixelated times…” LA Times on Weston Olencki