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
In Emi Maeda’s first U.S. performance, the Tokyo-born, Helsinki-based artist presents a concert for solo harp, live electronics and computer, mixing angelic glissandos with feedback and electronic noise.
Using her harp as interface, she attaches one contact microphone to the instrument’s soundboard, while she holds another mike in her hand and plays the harp’s strings. The two signals route through her electronics set-up, a computer and then a mixer, which she controls in real time.
Maeda says she is best characterized by the “irreconcilable conflict between a classical and a maverick musician.” We’d expect nothing less from the composer of Batgirl in Vienna.
Emi Maeda (b.1973, Tokyo) has studied harp playing in Tokyo and London. She currently divides her time between live performances and post-graduate studies in Finland. She is a frequent collaborator with varied musicians, dancers and media artists, including Maja Ratkje, Lotta Melin, HC Gilje and Lia, and she is a member of the Helsinki Computer Orchestra. Recent festival appearances include Avanto Media Art Festival (Helsinki, 2003) and All Ears Festival (Oslo, 2004).