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
Jessica Rylan (aka Can’t) overlays voice and DIY electronics to make music “as warm and direct as an autumn campfire.” Here, she calls forth sounds from the Natural Synthesizer, one of her recently completed homemade synths. Think: tree branches waving in the wind or frogs croaking. Spin: “New Secret” (RRR) her superb picture disc and so-called noise album.
Jessica Rylan (b.1974, London, England) is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and performs in the Boston area, where she grew up. The main focus of her work has been the design and construction of modular synthesizers that use analog electronic circuits. She uses her synthesizers in installations at galleries (LIST Gallery for Visual Arts at MIT, the Boston Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College) and also in her high-energy musical performances.