MINU 2023 | the by-and-by

MINU _ festival for expanded music | www.minufestival.com the by-and-by | 16.11 22.00 [doors open at 21.00] | Huset-KBH, Xenon solo performances by Jessie Marino and Weston Olencki Jessie Marino performs THE OCCASION and THE BACKYARD (an escape), two chapters from her debut album A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges: Sailing by the archipelago of different episodes from Robert Ashley’s ‘Perfect Lives’ - the text has porthole windows which view and comment on the original text from a wavering distance. & Weston Olencki plays a set on their electromechanical banjo: a vine that grew over the city and no one noticed is precision machined Americana heard through the ears of the electromechanical banjo. It is performed on a mechanically prepared banjo with magnetic resonators, solenoid motors, AM radio transmitters, handheld radio, railroad spikes, carriage bolts, Markov-driven three-finger banjo picking, and a neural net generated resynthesis of The Carter Family's ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’ (1935) as "performed" by the reanimated & digitized models of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Charley Pride, and many other singers long since departed to "the by and by". MINU 2023 has only one kind of ticket available: a festival ticket that gives access to all 10 concerts at the festival priced at 150 kr. It’s important for us to present events that are accessible to everyone regardless of financial means. We want to encourage audiences to visit multiple events, therefore access to all concerts on the festival is included when you purchase a ticket.

• Jessie Marino
• Weston Olencki