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
Skull Defekt Nordwall (analog electronics) and London’s Wastell (32-inch tam-tam) pair up for their new drone project, Oceans of Silver & Blood.
Joachim Nordwall (b.1975, Karlskrona, Sweden) began experimenting in sound in 1987, when he formed noise-drone outfit Alvars Orkester with Jan Svensson in Johannishus, a small village in the south-east of Sweden. From 1998-2005, he was part of the avant punk rock trio Kid Commando. In 1998, he also founded iDEAL Recordings, which this year marks its tenth anniversary. He has collaborated with many artists, including Leif Elggren, Lasse Marhaug, Mika Vainio and Mats Gustafsson, and he is a founding member of experimental rock band the Skull Defekts (with Henrik Rylander). Recent curatorial projects include his 24 Hour Drone People, a marathon concert at Fylkingen in Stockholm that included Stephen O’Malley, Hild Sofie Tafjord, C. Spencer Yeh, CM von Hausswolff and BJ Nilsen, as well as Wastell, Vainio, Rylander and Nordwall himself, among others. He livesin Gothenburg.
Mark Wastell (b.1968, U.K.) investigates the possibilities of acoustic instruments with sound textures and space structured in an abstract way. Wastell has played a central role in the development of quiet improvisation, a new approach to spontaneous composition that has garnered considerable attention over the past few years. His primary instruments are cello and percussion, especially the tam-tam. In addition to his career as a musician, he actively works as the Sound 323 record store owner, concert promoter and publisher. Early 2006 saw the publication of Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum, a massive work on contemporary music he co-authored with Brian Marley. He lives in London.
Joachim Nordwall first appeared at Lampo in September 2006 with Henrik Rylander, when they presented The Sound of Defekt Skulls and Intense Cranium Contact. This concert is Mark Wastell’s first performance in Chicago.