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
Joe Colley and Jason Lescalleet present two nights of concerts, alternating solo sets the first night and playing as a duo the following evening. Colley and Lescalleet share an active, physical approach to live performance and a common predilection for old, broken equipment.
Joe Colley (b.1972, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) is a self-taught artist, interested in lo-fi electronics. The Oakland-based musician’s performances have been seen as part of festivals, including Activating the Medium (SFMOMA), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), Phonotaktik (Vienna, Austria), Mutek (Montreal, Canada), Beyond Music (Venice, Ca.), and Songlines (Mills College, Oakland, Ca.). Notable recordings include Desperate Attempts at Beauty: Conceptual and Research Exercises (Auscultare Research), which was nominated for the Transmediale 05 Award, and Psychic Stress Soundtracks (Antifrost), which received an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2006. Colley made his Chicago debut at Lampo in February 2004.
Jason Lescalleet (b.1968, Worcester, Mass.) uses a ragtag collection of ancient reel-to-reel tape recorders and equally tattered electronics, running short loops of crumpled tape between machines. He blends layers of ambient tape loops, found sound, shades of silence and white noise, transformed through cheap microphones and trashed speakers. Lescalleet lives in Maine.