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
Solo music and sound poetry, voice, electronics and self-made synths cased in Tupperware. Lampo presents Tomomi Adachi in his Chicago debut. His work is truly fascinating—animated by gesture and imbued with a wry sense of humor.
The performance will unfold in three parts: first, his own text-sound compositions and work from a collection of historical Japanese sound poetry—seldom heard material by Hide Kinoshita from 1924, and Seiichi Niikuni from the 1960s and 70s; then improvisations with his Tomoring II, made of springs and metal wire, and the Tomomin II, one of his Tupperware instruments; followed by Voice and Infrared Sensor Shirt. In this piece Adachi wears a shirt adorned with sensors to modulate his voice as he moves.
Tomomi Adachi (b.1972, Kanazawa, Japan) is a performer, composer, sound poet and video artist living in Tokyo. He plays improvised music with voice, computer and self-made instruments and composes works for his own group Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus, a punk-style choir of non-professionals. In the field of sound poetry, he performs his own text-sound works as well as those from the little-known historical Japanese avant-garde. He has performed with many musicians, including Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Carl Stone, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jerome Noetinger and Tetsuo Furudate, and presented his work at the Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, STEIM, National Museum of Art Osaka, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and Fylkingen, among others.
Organized in cooperation with Columbia College, Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Sound