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 is very happy to bring you Tristan Perich and his 1-Bit Symphony with 1-bit video work, Linear Constructions.
1-bit is lo-fi and low-res. Binary electrical pulses—that is, on/off switches—synthesized by code, are routed by microchip to speaker or cathode ray television to create sound or light. Here, Tristan will show you what can be done with simple forms and complex systems.
Trained in mathematics and piano, Tristan Perich (b.1982, New York, N.Y.) works in acoustic and electronic music. Best known for his constructions that explore the physicality of sound and the polyphonic potential of 1-bit audio, his 1-Bit Music (2004-05) and 1-Bit Symphony (2010) celebrate the virtuosity of electricity. Neither release is a traditional recording. Instead, each is a music-generating circuit, housed in a CD jewel case with a headphone jack. Perich also has composed several works for musicians with 1-bit music accompaniment, and is in the music group the Loud Objects (with Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima), which performs by soldering its own noise-making circuits live in front of the audience.
As a visual artist, his projects include Machine Drawings, pen on paper or wall drawings executed by a machine that he designed and built, and Linear Constructions, installations for 1-bit video circuits and multiple cathode ray televisions. Individual video-generating circuits (designed and programmed by the artist) are wired to each television. The code on each chip synthesizes rapidly panning low-resolution 1-bit video patterns.
His work has been recognized by Prix Ars Electronica, commissioned by Rhizome, Bang on a Can and turbulence.org, and performed and exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. Perich graduated from Columbia University, and received a master’s degree in art, music and electronics at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Presented in partnership with the Graham Foundation