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
Duo and trio improvisations from Taku Sugimoto (Japan) guitar, Günter Müller (Switzerland) percussion and electronics, and Kevin Drumm (Chicago) tabletop guitar and electronics.
Taku Sugimoto (b.1965, Tokyo, Japan) started playing guitar when he was a high school student. Early projects were influenced by the Velvet Underground and MC5. In 1988 Sugimoto released his first solo LP, Mienai Tenshi, which had a big, heavy sound. He started playing cello in 1991, and was briefly a member of the psychedelic rock band Ghost in 1993. In ’94 he joined Tetuzi Akiyama’s avant-garde classical music band Hikyo String Quintet. Later that year Sugimoto gave up the cello, and he and Akiyama launched their guitar duo. Over time his sound has evolved from loud, dense volumes to extreme quiet, marked by passages of silence. In 1998, together with Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura, he launched a monthly concert series at Bar Aoyma, which he continued to organize until February 2001.
Günter Müller (b.1954, Munich, Germany) is sound artist, who originally performed as a percussionist and drummer, active primarily in free improvisation. He uses contact microphones to amplify his drum set, and has incorporated various electronic effects, sometimes using an iPod or MiniDisc recorder to loop or otherwise process his performances. Müller was a founding member of the groups Nachtluft, poire z and Taste Tribes, and has collaborated with Gastr Del Sol, Christian Marclay, Keith Rowe, Voice Crack, Alfred Harth and others. He founded the record label for4ears. He has lived in Switzerland since 1966.
Kevin Drumm (b.1970, South Holland, Ill.) emerged from Chicago’s improvised music scene in the 1990s as a tabletop guitar player. In his early works, he made spare and detailed recordings, laying the instrument on its side and playing it with different objects, like magnets, paper clips and violin bows. Since 1991 his approach has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers, pulse generators, effects pedals and synthesizers.
Earlier Lampo performances include a solo performance in December 1999, in a split bill with Ryoji Ikeda; and a September 1999 concert with Martin Tétreault and Jim O’Rourke.