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
Alessandro Bosetti premieres 29, a sound/video work, and presents improvised voice pieces using his new Mask Mirror scheme.
For 29, he shot video footage from a Jeep window, driving between Bandiagara and Sangha, Mali. Here, the image of the yellow and rocky landscape is juxtaposed with the artist’s live re-drawing action of the countryside. Bosetti also will perform with his Mask Mirror, a sampler of archived speech recordings. The instrument and software patch, which he developed in collaboration with Harvestworks in New York and STEIM in Amsterdam, interacts with his own voice and reorganizes speech for musical purposes.
Bosetti adds, “Voice, language, misunderstandings, sound-anthropology, relational aesthetics, tone languages, conversations, headphones, geography, unspoken languages, feedback (in behavior and physics), interview, no control, handicap, imitation and mimesis all are favorite themes for me.”
Alessandro Bosetti (b.1973, Milan, Italy) is a composer and sound artist. He is interested in the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcasts and published recordings. Field research and interviews build the basis for his abstract compositions, along with electroacoustic and acoustic collages, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. As a soprano saxophonist, he has developed an original extended technique. He lives and works in Berlin.
Alessandro Bosetti first appeared at Lampo in December 2005. In that performance, which was his Chicago debut, he premiered The Listeners, a sound/video project that he completed in the days immediately preceding his concert. Since its premiere, Bosetti has screened The Listeners around the world, including most recently as part of Metropolis: Counterpoint Berlin at Carnegie Hall, New York City.