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
Alexei Borisov, in his U.S. debut—
Here, he presents his unusual work, Polished Surface of a Table, with Soviet-era electronics, cassette tapes, Russian text and abstract vocalizations. His music combines musique concrète and odd, unsyncopated rhythms. Borisov’s words describe mundane situations and everyday objects in detail, delivered with a unique vocal style approaching speech.
Borisov also will show his film, Vruchenije diplomov (Diploma Ceremony), shot at his daughter’s high school in Moscow. The program concludes with a DJ set that surveys the recent history of Russian electronic music.
Alexei Borisov’s (b.1960, Moscow, Russia) career reflects the shifting styles of Russian underground music. In the early 1980s he played in The Center, the first Soviet new wave band, until he founded the first Russian techno-industrial group Notchnoi Prospekt. In the ’90s Borisov turned to experimental electronic music, both solo and under various project names, including the duo F.R.U.I.T.S., which combined abstract electronica, noise, voice modulation/distortion and free improvisation. Borisov’s latest solo projects bring together his love for the absurd and the commonplace (examples of found sound sources are sports reports from the radio or a family member reciting a children’s poem) with crude, minimal noise. Collaborations include joint projects with the performance group North (Russia), KK Null (Japan) and Leif Elggren (Sweden). Borisov also collaborates with the video artist Roman Anikushin, multimedia artists Aristarh Chernishev and Vladislav Efimov and also with Olga Subbotina, Moscow theater director. In 2000 Borisov and Finnish experimentalist Anton Nikkilä formed the N&B Research Digest recording label. He has performed in festivals throughout Europe, and he has organized a number of concerts and festivals of electronic music in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Borisov lives in Moscow.