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Chicago, IL 60680
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Read about our 100th concert (5/26/07) with Philip Jeck here, here, here and here.
| This season Lampo partners with some of Chicago's finest institutions, teaming up with the Graham Foundation, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to bring you more of what you crave. Location, start time and admission details vary, so note carefully the particulars below. |
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LIONEL MARCHETTI SAT JUNE 5 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place Admission FREE Space is limited; RSVP to rsvp@grahamfoundation.org |
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| Hard (difficile) to believe, but it's been 9 years since Lampo enjoyed the pleasure of Lionel's company. We missed him and so too have the nice people at Alcala's. He created spectacular music during his 2002 visit, and then left town with an equally spectacular cobra belt—but that's a story for another blurb. At long last he returns, and only in part for the Western wear. |
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| Here, he'll present an epic two-hour musique concrète performance, an "interpretation with spatialization," layering nature recordings, spoken text, pop songs and ethnic music through eight loudspeakers distributed around the room. Once on site, Marchetti will study the acoustics of the space and select appropriate works from his 20-year body of work. |
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| The evening, brought to you by Lampo and the Graham Foundation, will be divided into two parts, each with its own direction and theme—perhaps "the natural world" or "human psychology," or "shamanism," a favorite of Marchetti's, who sees parallels between the medicine man and composer, both as someone who transports you into another world. |
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| Lionel Marchetti (b. 1967, Marseille, France) is an electroacoustic improviser and musique concrète composer. Initially self-taught, Marchetti studied with Xavier Garcia in Grenoble. A scholar, he later worked at the CFMI (Lyon) and INA-GRM studios (Paris), and published a book on composer Michel Chion. |
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| In the mid-1990s Marchetti was one of a handful of artists who took electroacoustic music out of the academic studio and into the realm of free improv, using a live set-up with microphones, small speakers, tape recorders and radio. As an improviser he performs in his long-standing duo with Jérôme Noetinger, in the audio-visual project Le Cube, with influential collective Archipel, and with dancer Yôko Higashi. In his studio work he incorporates sound collage and electroacoustic composition, although the level of poetry and refusal of genre boundaries in his music puts him closer to Kristoff K. Roll and Luc Ferrari than Pierre Henry or Bernard Parmegiani. Lionel Marchetti made his U.S. debut at Lampo in June 2002, in a duo performance with Jérôme Noetinger. |
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| Co-presented with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts |
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TAKESHI MURATA AND ROBERT BEATTY THU MAR 4 6pm Conversations at the Edge (CATE) Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State Street |
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| Co-presented with Conversations at the Edge (CATE) |
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| For the last six years, artist Takeshi Murata and musician Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Three Legged Race) have collaborated on a series of visceral glitch-based animations, setting Murata's psychedelic imagery to Beatty's hypnotic compositions. Murata's videos range from hand-drawn animations of fluidly morphing shapes to painterly abstractions of meticulously hijacked digital code. Beatty employs hacked electronics and thrift store cast-offs to craft otherworldly sonic narratives, which he hopes take the listener "somewhere else." Together, the duo's electronic alchemy transforms the detritus of consumer culture into dazzling tapestries of sound and color. |
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| This evening, Lampo and CATE team up to bring you Murata and Beatty in a special screening and performance. The two artists will present their work in three sets: a solo performance by Beatty, a screening of videos by Murata, and a new audio-visual performance, created especially for this program, by both. |
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| Takeshi Murata (b. 1974, Chicago) has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Peres Projects, Los Angeles; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; Eyebeam, New York; FACT Centre, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New York Underground Film Festival; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Foxy Production, New York, and Deitch Projects, New York, among others. In 2007 he had a solo exhibition, "Black Box: Takeshi Murata," at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Other recent solo exhibitions were held at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, and Ratio 3, San Francisco. Murata lives in Saugerties, New York. |
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| Robert Beatty (b. 1981, Lexington, Ky.) is an artist and electronic musician who performs solo under the name Three Legged Race. He is a long running member of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, and C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core. Beatty's collaboration with Takeshi Murata has spawned performances by Three Legged Race at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Stray Alchemists, 2007, Beijing), Deitch Projects (Heavy Light, 2008, New York), the Mattress Factory (Heavy Light, 2008, Pittsburgh, and the New Museum (No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image, 2009, New York). Each of Beatty's performances and recordings explore the repetition and decay of simple musical themes, discovering a new world of rhythmic and harmonic possibilities with each tier of abstraction, evoking minimalist sci-fi soundtracks and clouded hypnotic landscapes. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where he runs the Mountaain label. Beatty first appeared at Lampo in October 2008, when he premiered "Falling Order I and II." |
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| Co-presented with Conversations at the Edge, which is organized by the School of the Art Institute, Department of Film, Video, and New Media in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank. |
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| TOMOMI ADACHI FRI APR 16 8pm Columbia College 916 S Wabash, Rm 214 Admission $10, Students $5 |
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| Solo music and sound poetry, voice, electronics and self-made synths cased in Tupperware. Lampo is thrilled to present Tomomi Adachi in his Chicago debut. His stuff is truly fascinating—animated by gesture, imbued with a sly sense of humor, and not to be missed. |
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| The evening will unfold in three parts: first, his own text-sound compositions and work from a collection of historical Japanese sound poetry—seldom heard material by Hide Kinoshita from 1924, and Seiichi Niikuni from the 1960s and 70s. He'll also improvise with his homemade gear, including both the amplified Tomoring II, made of springs and metal wire, and the Tomomin II, one of his Tupperware instruments. Lastly, Adachi performs the beguiling "Voice and Infrared Sensor Shirt," in which the artist wears a sensor-bedazzled shirt that modulates his voice as he moves. |
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| Tomomi Adachi (b. 1972, Kanazawa, Japan) is a performer, composer, sound poet and video artist living in Tokyo. He plays improvised music with voice, computer and self-made instruments and composes works for his own group "Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus," a punk-style choir of non-professionals. In the field of sound poetry, he performs his own text-sound works as well as those from the little-known historical Japanese avant-garde. He has performed with many musicians, including Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Carl Stone, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jérôme Noetinger and Tetsuo Furudate, and presented his work at the Tate Modern, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, STEIM, National Museum of Art Osaka, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and Fylkingen, among others. |
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| Organized in cooperation with Columbia College, Audio Arts and Acoustics Department, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Sound. Adachi is currently visiting the U.S. as a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council. |
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STEN HANSON - CANCELLED SAT MAY 8 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place |
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| Unfortunately, for medical reasons Sten Hanson will not be able to travel to Chicago. We'll look forward to having him here as planned sometime soon. |
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| Sten Hanson is coming to Chicago! The legendary Swedish composer will perform a range of works for voice and recorded sound from the span of his career, some old and some new, in this joint project from Lampo and the Graham Foundation. In summary, wow. |
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| Sten Hanson (b. 1936, Klövsjö, Sweden) first came to prominence in the early 1960s as an experimental poet and composer. He pioneered the use of tape-recording techniques in the renewal and development of poetry, and as a means to expand the limitations of language. One of the forerunners in the field of multi-media art, Hanson combined his theories of "Text-sound-visual image" with intensely personal live performances. From his earliest pieces consisting of rough cut-and-paste tape collages, through to the later use of computer to apply effects, Hanson's voice remains the focus throughout. His works include electroacoustic pieces as well as instrumental and vocal compositions. |
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| From the end of the 1960s up to 1979, he worked essentially with electroacoustic music and created, with Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnson, the theory and the practice of a new aesthetic field: "the electronic text-sound." Many of his early compositions were short, hard-hitting collages of text and sound with social and political content: "Che" (1968), "Western Europe" (1969), "Revolution" (1970). In other works the emphasis was more on humorous burlesque: "Coucher et souffler" (1968), "How are You" (1969). Compositions like "Fnarp(e)" (1970) and "L'Inferno de Strindberg" (1971) have passed through more extensive electroacoustic processing, as is also the case in the humorous but cautionary "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (1982). |
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| Throughout his career, Hanson has played an extremely active part in both Swedish and international musical life. He was leader of the Fylkingen language group from 1968 and in charge of the Text-Sound Festivals that were held for many years. He was director (1968-1977) and then chairman (1980-1984) of Fylkingen, chairman of the ISCM (1975-1981), member of the Royal Academy of Music of Sweden and president of the Swedish Composers' Union (1985-1994), member of the Executive Committee of International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM) (1981-1982) and chairman of this organization from 1997 to 2002, among other positions. |
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| Co-presented with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts |
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| Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. On view in the Graham Foundation Madlener House galleries from April 30-July 17 is Utopía Posible, a multi-media installation by artist Felipe Dulzaides (Cuba,1965) that explores the story of the unfinished National Art Schools in Havana, commissioned by Fidel Castro in 1961.The Madlener House galleries will be open before the concert. |
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