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
For this concert developed in collaboration with Lampo and the Renaissance Society, Sarah Davachi premieres a new work for pipe organ and two French horns in the soaring interior of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.
Titled la brume jaune, the composition explores alternating experiences of gradual movement and stasis, within intimate musical relationships of harmony, melody and timbre. The interplay between the organ (played by Davachi) and the two amplified horns (played by Liz Deitemyer and Matthew Oliphant) provides a further layer of acoustic counterpoint, reflecting the Canadian composer’s more recent explorations in writing for unconventional chamber ensembles. Designed by master builder E.M. Skinner in 1928, Rockefeller Chapel’s Skinner Organ is among the most revered in the United States and contains over 8,000 pipes.
Sarah Davachi (b.1987, Calgary, Canada) is a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music. This performance is Davachi’s third project with Lampo. Her large-scale works for pipe organ have been presented internationally, with recent performances at Sankt Johannes Kirke in Copenhagen, Temppeliaukio Church in Helsinki, Église du Gesù in Montréal, and First Congregational Church in Los Angeles. Her latest recorded work, Pale Bloom, was released in June 2019 by Superior Viaduct. Davachi lives in Los Angeles, where she is a doctoral student in musicology.
Presented with the Renaissance Society; organized in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel