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
Mattie Barbier premieres a new solo work for hydrophonic and geophonic recordings of Lake Erie, phantom brass ensemble, and trombone.
In paper blown between the spaces in my ribs, they explore intersections of vanishing sonic ecologies, sonifications of the interior world of untouched instruments, and a search for the safety and stability of constructed memories. The piece completes a series of works about longing for home.
Barbier also plays no dirt to call for prepared euphonium.
Mattie Barbier (b.1985, Anchorage, Alaska) is a Los Angeles-based musician and sonic researcher, focused on experimental intonation, sonification of latent acoustic irrationalities, and the physical processes of their instrument. They are a member of RAGE Thormbones, wildUp, Echoi, and an active soloist on low brass instruments. Barbier primarily works with trombone, as well as euphonium, bass trumpet, electronics, and bagpipes.
Collaborators include Clara Iannotta, Michelle Lou, Weston Olencki, Sarah Davachi, Ellen Arkbro, Catherine Lamb, Kevin Drumm, Jacob Kirkegaard, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, and Katherine Young.
Barbier has performed at the Getty Villa, Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, REDCAT, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, all in Los Angeles; Exploratorium, San Francisco; Indexical, Santa Cruz; Roulette, Brooklyn; Issue Project Room, New York; and Frequency Festival, Chicago; among others. European festival appearances include Borealis Festival, Norway; Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany; Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany; MaerzMusik, Germany; Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Austria; Kalv Festival, Sweden; and Musica Nova Helsinki, Finland.
They have been in residence at Columbia, Harvard, New York University, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz. Barbier has released work on Carrier, Dinzu Artefacts, Populist, Mode, Hat Hut, Innova, Faux Amis, New Amsterdam, and Kairos Records. They teach at CalArts and Los Angeles City College.
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