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
John McCowen performs new solo works for contrabass clarinet from his Models of Duration. With specific microphone placement, he brings the listener inside the instrument.
“There are no electronically generated sounds,” says McCowen. “This is acoustic music.”
John McCowen (b.1986, Carbondale, Ill.) is a composer and performer focused on extending the possibilities of the clarinet. His multiphonic approach embraces long-form drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to squeeze out the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. His music has been released by Edition Wandelweiser, International Anthem, Astral Spirits, Superpang, Dinzu Artefacts, and others. McCowen was a 2017 and 2019 artist-in-residence at Lijiang Studio in Yunnan, China, and also the 2020 artist-in-residence at Issue Project Room in New York. He received the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award for excellence in music composition in 2016 from Mills College where he received an M.A. in Music Composition under the tutelage of Roscoe Mitchell. He currently resides in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Presented in partnership with the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble