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
Spanish sound artist Francisco López (b.1964, Madrid, Spain) creates minimalist electronic music with processed environmental recordings. He makes these recordings all over the world, conducting his vast field activity in over 30 countries on four continents. However, López does not pursue a documentary goal with his work. Instead, sounds from the tropical and sub-tropical forests of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Senegal, Gambia and China are processed until they are mostly unrecognizable. Noises from plants, animals, insects and weather are transformed into elusive mechanical whirs, and the ambient music shifts from the limits of perception to extremes of sonic power.
To date, his prolific catalog comprises more than 100 sound works, which have been released by 60 record labels, including Mego, Staalplaat, Trente Oiseaux, Sonoris, and Table of the Elements. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, the Americas and Japan, but has never performed in Chicago. Lampo is pleased to present the Chicago debut of Francisco López.
Support provided by the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago