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
Lampo celebrates its 100th concert with British turntablist Philip Jeck, whose music explores the play of memory, nostalgia and time.
Jeck, like peers Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Tétreault, cares less for beat and scratch, instead massing sound, looping drones and layering old vinyl fragments. He uses vintage turntables, a Casio keyboard and effects. His slow-evolving improvisations are plaintive, taciturn and remarkably beautiful. Constant circles of voice and music repeat and fade in a kind of haunted impressionism.
Philip Jeck (b.1952, Liverpool, U.K.) studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early 1980s. In addition to his solo work, he has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theater companies. His best known project, Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent—a performance for 180 Dansette record players, won the Time Out Performance Award for 1993. Notable releases include Loopholes (Touch, 1995), Surf (Touch, 1999), Vinyl Coda I-III (Intermedium Records, 2000) and Vinyl Coda IV (Intermedium Records, 2001).
Philip Jeck appeared at Lampo in June 2004, in his first U.S. solo performance.