Wired Moth release note
Broadsides
Weston Olencki
Bluegrass memory pulled sideways through weather, field recordings and machine permutation. The banjo keeps its wood and wire even as the archive starts folding time around it.
How the machine enters
Olencki built the album from Southern field recordings, traditional material and electroacoustic processing. On its most radical passage, banjo is fed through machine-learning algorithms that extend bluegrass standards into shifting permutations while preserving the work's situated human and historical frame.