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
Oswald Berthold makes his first trip to Chicago, offering a solo performance for digital sound and video.
Here, he premieres tats=3D94chliche-Chaos. In performance Berthold connects to the Internet to access control data from servers in Vienna, pulling dynamic audio streams and using them in addition to what he does locally. “These distributed online automated entities work like virtual players in a virtual little band,” he explains.
Oswald Berthold (b.1976, Graz, Austria), of the media collective Farmers Manual, is interested in transforming different kinds of data into sonic and visual material. The group, which began in Vienna in the mid-1990’s, is known both for its recordings and extensive live performances, in which computer animation, synchronized with “chaos-particle-accelerating” music, and the overall ambience of uncontrollable technology form a seamless whole. Berthold’s other projects include cd_slopper with Florian Hecker, and his solo work under the name pxp, which was recognized at Ars Electronica 2002 for the release while(p){print”.”,” “x$p++} (Wavetrap).