Achim Wollscheid

Odum

2116 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60622

Lampo encourages you to bring a plate, knife, fork, spoon … and if you like, a glass and something to drink. We’ll have tables and chairs set up around the space. 

Explanation:

German artist Achim Wollscheid offers a real-time electronic transformation of sound. And to create a context for making sound, Wollscheid and volunteers cook potato pancakes for the audience.

Microphones arranged around the performance space capture the clatter and buzz of food preparation (Cuisinart, frying pans on hotplates, etc.), eating and conversation. Throughout the performance, he uses his laptop to transform these sounds and mix them live.

Achim Wollscheid (b.1959, Trier, Germany)  is a media artist from Frankfurt. He has been working with sound, radio, light, video and film since the early 1980s, creating site-specific installations and performances using listeners’ participation in real-time sound transformations. His first recorded works were released under the name S.B.O.T.H.I. He has lectured and performed at major institutions throughout the world. Collaborators include Merzbow, Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) and Bernhard Günter.