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 Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre to Chicago for their U.S. debut. The two Norwegian artists began working together as Jazzkammer in the late 90s and immediately received critical praise.
Here, the duo offers two nights of improvised electronic music with digital glitches, pop culture samplings, and field recordings.
On Friday, they premiere Timex Seconds, a new three-part work that combines modified acoustic guitar and Nintendo Gameboy with field recordings made in Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø, Trondheim and above the Arctic Circle. On Saturday, Lasse and John play with Chicago laptop trio TV Pow.
Lasse Marhaug (b.1974, Bodø, Norway) is a noise musician, who has released a dozen albums and toured extensively all over Europe, working solo but also with electronica and jazz artists from around the world. For several years he has been active in Origami Republika, the Trondheim-based multimedia collective. Marhaug also runs Jazzassin Records.
John Hegre (b.1967, Bergen, Norway) is a guitarist and composer who has been playing improvised music for over ten years. He also works in Norway as a record producer and theater sound designer.
TV Pow was formed in Tokyo in 1995 by Michael Hartman (b.1970, Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Brent Gutzeit (b.1971, Flint, Mich.), and later joined by Todd Carter (b.1971, Pontiac, Mich.), when he moved from Kalamazoo to Chicago.
Support provided by the American-Scandinavian Foundation