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
Nicolas Collins in his first solo performance in Chicago since 1988. The program includes pieces for voice and electronics from Sound Without Picture, as well as Pea Soup and Sled Dog for backwards electric guitar, hacked CD players, computers, electromagnetic fields and feedback.
Nicolas Collins (b.1954, New York, N.Y.) studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for several years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloists and ensembles worldwide, including Tom Cora, Peter Cusack, Christian Marclay, Ben Neill, Jim O’Rourke, Robert Poss, the Soldier String Quartet and John Zorn. He was a pioneer in the use of microcomputers in live performance, and has made extensive use of home-made electronic circuitry, radio, found sound material and transformed musical instruments. From 1992-95 Collins was visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and in 1996-97 a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. In 1999 he joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.