Today Lampo announces its WS20 season, which begins in late February with new work from Chicago artist Whitney Johnson (aka Matchess) and concludes in June with a special performance by the Jessica Pavone String Ensemble, as we also celebrate 10 years of Lampo at the Graham Foundation. In between, we bring you new projects from … Continued
Lampo director Andrew Fenchel and musician Steve Hauschildt will talk about experimental music and conduct a hands-on workshop at Apple Michigan Avenue on Saturday, January 25 at 2:00 p.m. Steve also will perform a short set. Music Lab: Sonic Landscapes with Lampo and Steve Hauschildt. Details here.
Lampo is very pleased to announce its FW19 season of programs—with special new projects from artists Sarah Davachi, Laura Steenberge, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Caterina Barbieri, Catherine Lamb and Rebecca Lane. On October 5, Sarah Davachi premieres a new long-form composition for pipe organ and two French horns, in the soaring interior of Rockefeller Chapel. … Continued
Lampo director Andrew Fenchel looks back at Resonance: A Sound Art Marathon at the Walker Art Center, in this review for the Walker Reader. The May 2019 festival, organized by Pavel Pyś and Doug Benidt, included artists Philip Blackburn, Christine Sun Kim, Walter Kitundu, … Continued
Today Lampo announces its WS19 season, featuring projects by artists Florian Hecker, Peter Rehberg, James Hoff, Jon Davies and DeForrest Brown Jr., and Anthony Pateras—with five special performances across Chicago, at the Poetry Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the new Green Line Performing Arts Center in the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. Lampo WS19 begins in … Continued
Clare Cooper (harp, guzheng), in her Chicago debut, mixes it up with Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) for an evening of improvised music.
Harpist and digital media artist Clare Cooper (b.1981, Sydney, Australia) is interested in unlikely pairings, and what they reveal of machines and music. She focuses primarily on player-powered mechanical percussion and electronic-like acoustic soundworlds on her two chosen string instruments: the concert harp and the Chinese guzheng. Over the past seven years she has toured around the world, presenting solo work and teaming up with improvisers, artists, technicians and dancers. Frequent collaborators include Chris Abrahams, Cor Fuhler, Tony Buck, Anthony Pateras, Jean-Philippe Gross, Nicholas Bussmann and Valerio Tricoli. In 2002 Cooper and partner Clayton Thomas started “the NOW now festival” of spontaneous music, Australia’s key experimental sound and film festival. It was born from the ongoing fortnightly series “if you like improvised music, we like you.” In 2007 Cooper moved from Sydney to Berlin, where she is now based.
Fred Lonberg-Holm (b.1962, Wilmington, Del.) is a Chicago-based cellist, improviser and composer. A former student of Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros and Morton Feldman, his primary projects are his Valentine Trio (with Frank Rosaly and Jason Roebke) and Lightbox Orchestra (non-fixed personnel). He also currently plays in groups led by Joe McPhee (Survival Unit III), Peter Brotzmann (Chicago 10tet), Tony Malaby (Cello Trio) and Ken Vandermark (Vandermark 5, Frame 4tet, Territory Ensemble). He also has contributed cello sounds to numerous recording projects by rock groups including Califone, Freakwater, God-is-my-co-pilot, L’altra, Smog, Super Chunk, U.S. Maple, Wilco and many others.