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
Lampo announces its WS17 season, with six programs—and several special works to premiere in Chicago. Artists include Sarah Davachi, Lasse Marhaug, Sergei Tcherepnin, Jacob Kirkegaard, Olivia Block and Phill Niblock. On January 28, young Canadian composer Sarah Davachi makes her Chicago debut, at long last. Rescheduled from November, Davachi premieres a new composition for vintage synthesizers, harmonium … Continued
Lampo is pleased to announce its FW16 season, which begins Sept 24 when art duo MSHR premieres Macro Synthetic Helio Resistor—a quadraphonic performance involving their new Boolean logic chip-based analog modular synthesizers in a light-audio feedback system (Graham Foundation). In October, composer, instrument builder and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada and composer Tashi Wada make a … Continued
This fall Lampo will open its first annex space—a spot for artist talks and a place where the organization can tend to, and the public can experience, its archive collection. In its near 20-year history Lampo has amassed a significant collection of sound and video recordings, photographs and artists’ papers, documenting hundreds of performances. With this new space, located … Continued
Lampo announces its WS16 season with seven new programs through June. South Korean filmmaker Lee Hangjun and noise musician Hong Chulki perform two audiovisual works on Jan 23 (Logan Center for the Arts, presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art). On Feb 6 Alessandro Bosetti premieres Plane/Taléa, in our first co-presentation with the Poetry Foundation. Later that … Continued
Lampo is pleased to announce it has received a grant through the Performing Arts Fund NL to commission a new work by Dutch artist Thomas Ankersmit. He will create a composition for Serge analog synthesizer and digital electronics, intended to produce an effect of intensity or sensory overload through the combination of many, very small sounds. Ankersmit’s project … Continued
Lampo seeks interns and volunteers. We are looking for assistance in a range of areas, including production support, event documentation, general operations, and help organizing our collection of audio and video recordings, photographs, and artists’ papers. Ideal for students or recent graduates. Some background in arts administration and/or familiarity with A/V equipment preferred. Love for Lampo and … Continued
Lampo is very happy to announce its FW15 season, running September through December. On Sep 24 Montreal-based video artist Sabrina Ratté and musician Roger Tellier-Craig perform as Le Révélateur, with generous support from mediaThe foundation inc. The duo will premiere a new, long-form work and screen a selection of Ratté’s short videos (Conversations at the … Continued