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
Kevin Drumm fills the wide-open spaces of Preston Bradley Hall with Narrow Territory, his new multiple speaker project for Lampo and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Drumm, whose work draws upon musique concrète, improvisation and noise, makes electronic music with cheap testing equipment and computers. Here, he creates a densely packed sound, moving hiss and tone around the room with an array of 18 speakers under the Tiffany dome.
Kevin Drumm (b.1970, South Holland, Ill.) emerged from Chicago’s improvised music scene in the 1990s as a tabletop guitar player. In his early works, he made spare and detailed recordings, laying the instrument on its side and playing it with different objects, like magnets, paper clips and violin bows. Since 1991 his approach has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers, pulse generators, effects pedals and synthesizers.
He has performed and recorded with many artists, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O’Rourke, tape-looper Jason Lescalleet, and European improvisers such as Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and German trumpeter Axel Dörner. In 2001 he worked with the artist group Simparch, composing a piece for their installation Spec, shown at Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany and at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. His music for Deborah Stratman’s film In Order Not to Be Here was also part of a different Simparch installation at the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Past performances include those at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), LUFF (Switzerland), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea), Phonotaktik (Austria), Göteborg Art Sounds Festival (Sweden), Sonár (Spain), Reykjavik Jazz Festival (Iceland), What is Music? (Australia) and All Tomorrow’s Parties (Los Angeles, curated by Sonic Youth), among others. His releases include Kevin Drumm (1997), Sheer Hellish Miasma (2002), Land of Lurches (2003), Imperial Distortion (2008), Imperial Horizon (2009) and Trouble (2014). In 2011 he received an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in recognition of his music. He also received awards from Prix Ars Electronica in Austria in 2000 and 2003.
Kevin Drumm last appeared in the Lampo series in February 2007 with Leif Elggren. In the early 2000s he premiered two key works at Lampo—Land of Lurches in February 2003 and Sheer Hellish Miasma in March 2002. He joined Taku Sugimoto and Günter Müller for a trio concert in February 2002. Drumm presented Three in December 1999, as half of a split bill with Ryoji Ikeda. He first performed for Lampo in September 1999 with Martin Tétreault and Jim O’Rourke.
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial