Weston Olencki

Two electro-mechanically controlled banjos, homemade magnetic resonators, solenoid motors, AM radio transmitters, vintage transistor and tube radios, railroad spikes, 60Hz ground hum, mason jars, carriage bolts, field recordings, South Carolina red clay distortion unit, neural net re-synthesis of seminal old-time repertoire and Markov-driven three-finger banjo picking; various additional samples drawn from the field recordings of O. Winston Link, Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians, and miscellaneous archival tapes, cylinders, records, and wire recordings made in the Carolinas.

I. Cripple Creek/Pretty Polly

II. 10:23pm through the Saluda Grade // Moonshiner  

III. interlude (Nachtmusik) 

IV. "the by and by"

Samples from O. Winston Link's "Sounds of Steam Railroading" (Vol. 1 "self-titled" & 3, "Thunder on Blue Ridge") [1957] expressly used with permission from the the O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, VA

“the by and by” was compiled by generating predictive models using the OpenAI Jukebox engine, using the reanimated digitized voices of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Charley Pride, Elizabeth Cotten, Jimmie Rodgers, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, Uncle Dave Macon, Willie Nelson, etc.

Re-animated voice of Roscoe Holcomb made using Google’s DDSP timbre-transfer passed through a corpus of samples made by Charlotte Mundy.

composition/production/concept by WO. Lovingly mastered by A.F. Jones/Laminal Audio.

Released by Tripticks Tapes in May 2022 as a part of “Old Time Music”.