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 very pleased to present the Chicago debut of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh.
Emphasizing texture over meter, the French-Vietnamese artist beats, scrapes and bows a range of tools. On his solo release Ustensiles, from Gunter Müller’s For 4 Ears label, he uses a bass drum, Turkish and Chinese cymbals, Japanese bowls, bells, gongs and sheets of aluminum. On one track, musique spectrale à petit budget, he coaxes a mysterious glitchy noise from a handful of chickpeas. A new record, La Voyelle Liquide (Erstwhile) documents Ninh and Müller together, with both contributing percussion and electronics.
Lê Quan Ninh (b.1961, Paris) is a classically trained percussionist, active in contemporary and improvised music. He is a John Cage specialist and founding member of the Hêlios Quartet, a classical ensemble that mixes percussion and new technology. Past Hêlios performances include concerts at the Centre Pompidou and several appearances at the Centre Culturel André Malraux for the Festival Musique Action in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy. Additional collaborations include work with Martine Altenburger, J.A. Deane, Michel Doneda, Mats Gustafsson, Luc Houtkamp, Tristan Honsinger, Peter Kowald, Joëlle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Buth Morris, Jim O’Rourke, Jean Pallandre, Evan Parker and Carlos Zingaro.
For this special concert, Ninh will improvise with clarinetist and alto saxophonist Guillermo Gregorio. Now based in Chicago, Gregorio (b.1941, Buenos Aires) has made several recordings for the Swill label Hat Art. Some of his early experiments from Argentina have been collected recently on the fascinating Otra Musica: tape music, fluxus & free improvisation in Buenos Aires 1963-70 (Atavistic).
Support provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Chicago