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
Bearings is Ka Baird’s new, evolving solo performance piece. It is equally a work for our times and our office building, with Ka on the move, creating a series of sonic encounters for small audiences, each a shifting arrangement of sounds and sources tailored for one, two, three or four listeners.
Throughout, Bearings asks you to consider your position within a space in flux. Here Ka uses multiple speakers to muddle live and pre-recorded voice, flute and electronics, while location changes and lighting heighten moments of disorientation and resolve. Taken together, the effect may be cathartic, funny, or something else entirely.
Ka performs the 25-minute work five times each night, Friday and Saturday from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m.—first for just one person; then for two people, and again for three; closing with two performances, each for four people. Some soft directives and movement will be suggested for attendees.
Ka Baird (b.1976, Decatur, Ill.) is a performer, composer, and sound designer based in New York City. They are known for their live solo performances that include extended vocal, breath, and microphone techniques, which are combined with electronics and the psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds.
Baird is one of the founding and continuing members of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, formed in Chicago in 2001. Performances include the Unsound Festival, Krakow; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MoMA PS1, Issue Project Room, and The Kitchen, New York City; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; TUSK Festival, Newcastle; Incubate, Tilburg; KRAAK, Brussels; Le Guess Who?, Utrecht; and the Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen. Residencies include Sonoscopia, Porto; Inkonst, Malmo; ESS, Chicago; Pioneer Works and Roulette, New York City. Recent recordings include Hungry Shells with Pekka Airaksinen (RVNG Intl.). In 2020 Baird received an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Ka Baird’s Bearings is part of an occasional series of commissioned performances created for the 10 x 20-foot dimensions of the Lampo office.