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
Inspection II is a seven-channel sound performance by composer Florian Hecker, using computer-generated sound and synthetic voice, with libretto by Robin Mackay in the form of a dialogue between a psychoanalyst and his patient.
Hecker reprocesses his own work here. Original sounds are algorithmically reconstructed, or resynthesized, where “inspection” refers to a process of looking inside, to analyze and discover. Starting out as a dialogical machine-machine interplay, the sound disintegrates from recognizable speech to more and more abstract sounds masking each other, concluding in noise with no signal.
Florian Hecker (b.1975, Augsburg, Germany) uses synthetic sounds and the listener’s auditory process to create acoustic spaces of experience. His computer-generated compositions dramatize psychoacoustics as well as objective-physical stimuli and their individual, psychic and physical impacts.
Selected solo exhibitions and performances: Synopsis, Tramway, Glasgow (2017); Formulations, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2016); Formulations, Culturgest, Porto; Künstlerhaus Graz; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); Sadie Coles HQ, London; Galerie Neu, Berlin; Articulação, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; documenta 13, Kassel; Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2012). His collaboration with Reza Negarestani, A Script for Machine Synthesis, was presented at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and at Maison de la Radio, Paris (both in 2015); Formulation (FLV Project) was presented at the opening exhibition of Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014).
He has an extensive discography, including A Script for Machine Synthesis (Editions Mego); Articulação Sintetico (Editions Mego); Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera (PAN); Articulação (Editions Mego); Chimerization (Editions Mego); Speculative Solution (Editions Mego); and Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Editions Mego).
Hecker last performed at Lampo in April 2011, when he presented the U.S. premiere of Speculative Solution—his music exploring philosopher Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of hyperchaos. In October 2006 he performed a six-channel computer work with material that later became Acid in the Style of David Tudor. In November 2002 Hecker and Yasunao Tone premiered Palimpsest at Lampo, in the duo’s first U.S. appearance. Hecker also played his solo work Stocha Acid Vlook.
Presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation; organized in cooperation with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Sound