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
More good news from Lampo, as Marcus Schmickler returns. Lately the composer has been interested in the correlations between music, language, thought and representation. Here, he’ll work out some of those ideas in a new multichannel piece, Semiotic Chora, using sonifications of logical functions and electroacoustic artifacts.
Marcus Schmickler (b.1968, Cologne, Germany) studied composition and electronic music and works in both composed and improvised forms. He has won numerous prizes and honors and is closely associated with the Cologne label a-Musik. As a composer along with his many works of electronic music, he works with the ensemble recherche, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the musikFabrik, the Paragon Ensemble, the Ensemble Zeitkratzer, among others. As a musician he works with artists such as John Tilbury, Thomas Lehn, MIMEO and Julee Cruise. His discography consists of over 50 titles, and he has performed internationally. He lives and works in Cologne.
Schmickler has appeared at Lampo several times—in June 2011 he performed new quadraphonic computer music, particle/matter-wave/energy, a sonification of various astrophysical data. He and Peter Rehberg performed together in May 2009, in the duo’s first live appearance. A recording of that concert was later released on USA (PAN). In December 2007 he presented the U.S. premiere of Altars of Science. Schmickler performed with Thomas Lehn in September 2005, later released on Navigation Im Hypertext (a-Musik). He made his Lampo debut in September 2002.
Presented in partnership with the Graham Foundation; support provided by the Goethe-Institut Chicago
Please also join Lampo and Marcus Schmickler as we journey to infinity, for about 45 minutes. The esteemed German composer offers a unique audio illusion at the Comfort Station, part of Comfort, a Post Family curatorial residency. March 13, 8pm.