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 pleased to bring Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman from Spain for two nights of folklore and fantasy—and four multimedia works.
On Friday they perform Scotch Monsters, a piece about monsters, elves and fairies made from sound recordings and video collected in Scotland… then Bousha and Juanita, with music by Alejandra, Aeron, Bousha (Aeron’s grandmother) and Juanita (Aeron’s guitar) and video footage of suburban knick-knackery.
On Saturday they present Underwater Villages, a sound and video work about real and imagined places in northern Spain… then Salinas and Bergman premiere a new piece called Just This One Day, made over four years. A & A in their Chicago debut.
Alejandra Salinas (b.1977, Logroño, Spain) and Aergon Bergman (b.1971, Detroit, Mich.), a married couple who work together under the moniker Alejandra & Aeron, are based in La Rioja, Spain. They capture everyday sounds, using a recorder the way a camera captures images. Sheep bells, clips of family dialogue or a song sung at a friend’s wedding—all form part of the snapshots of daily Riojan life.
However, their work is not pure documentary, but instead a creative response to sound. Samples from their source recordings are manipulated, looped and combined with ambient drones, digital edits and electronic textures.
They have shown their work internationally at such institutions as the Kitchen, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of New Art, Detroit; Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Ex Teresa Center for Contemporary Art, Mexico City. Together they run the Lucky Kitchen label with releases by Joshua Abrams, Toshiya Tsunoda, Stephan Mathieu and others. Salinas and Bergman received the 2002 Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica for The Tale of Pip.
Support provided by the Instituto Cervantes