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Read about our 100th concert (5/26/07) with Philip Jeck here, here, here and here.
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HANS W. KOCH AND NICOLAS COLLINS APR 11 9pm |
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| Collins (his first local concert since '04) and koch (Chicago debut) present a night of electronic music by and for the masses. Alternating solos, duos (their first together) and ensemble works (w/ several students and maybe you). |
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| The program will include: "Waggle Dance," for laptop marching band, unplugged; the Chicago premiere of "the benchmark consort," a study in digital failure for an orchestra of crashing laptops; "Salvage," in which seven performers attempt to revive dead circuit boards from discarded appliances; and other works for hacked CD players, backwards electric guitars, smart-bomb video, and flame-controlled oscillators. Hans will bring a new piece of analogue gear called the blippoo box. And the concert will feature performances by the legendary SAIC Sinfonietta. |
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| If you have a laptop (Mac or PC), bring it along and participate in "the benchmark consort." |
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| hans w. koch (b. 1962, Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany) is a composer and sound artist from Cologne, Germany. Since 1996 he has explored the potential of computers as a hardware/software unity. Some of these explorations are carried out by directly attacking the hardware ("computermusik I - exploded view"), while others exploit certain hardware features with the help of software, such as "bandoneonbook," where filtered feedback between the built-in microphone and speakers is used to create an accordion-like instrument. He tours extensively and has been a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts. |
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| New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins (b. 1954) studied with Alvin Lucier, worked with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous musicians around the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. He teaches in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A new edition of his book, "Handmade Electronic Music - The Art of Hardware Hacking," will published by Routledge in April 2009. He has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGBs and the Concertgebouw. Collins first appeared at Lampo in October 2002. |
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| Organized in cooperation with the Department of Sound, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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PETER REHBERG AND MARCUS SCHMICKLER MAY 9 9pm |
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| R/S—the duo—in its first live performance anywhere in the world. |
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| Peter Rehberg (b. 1968, London) co-founded the influential Mego label in 1994, and soon after began recording under the name Pita. His first solo release, "Seven Tons for Free," came out in 1996, melding noise with techno. Since then he's continued in this path, both as a solo artist and in groups such as KTL, Rehberg & Bauer, MIMEO and Fenn O'Berg. In 1999 he received the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award for Digital Musics alongside Christian Fennesz. Recently, he's been primarily focused on working with KTL (w/ Stephen O'Malley) as well as dance and performance pieces (w/ Gisele Vienne). He also runs the Editions Mego label in Vienna. Rehberg appeared at Lampo in March 2003, when he performed the U.S. premiere of "Get Off." |
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| Marcus Schmickler (b. 1968, Cologne) has been involved with numerous projects over the past decade. While rooted in electronic music, Schmickler also has a background in contemporary composition, having studied under prominent Stockhausen collaborator Johannes Fritsch. As a solo artist, Schmickler has created important works such as Wabi Sabi, Sator Rotas and Param, as well as under the name Pluramon. He also has long-standing electroacoustic collaborative projects, most notably with Thomas Lehn, both in duo and in trio with Keith Rowe, and a duo with British pianist John Tilbury. He is based in Cologne. |
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| Schmickler first appeared at Lampo in Sept 2002 in his Chicago debut. Three years later, in Sept 2005, he performed at Lampo with Thomas Lehn. Most recently, he opened the new Lampo space in December 2007, with the U.S. premiere of his computer music work "Altars of Science." |
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| C. SPENCER YEH AND MICHAEL JOHNSEN MAY 23 9pm |
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| Solo and duo works for violin, singing saw, voice, radio and electronics. First set, uncluttered and singular; second set, individual vocabularies organized into complementary combinations and open instant compositions. Johnsen in his Chicago debut. |
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| C. Spencer Yeh (b. 1975, Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the U.S. in 1980, and now lives in Cincinnati. He is active both as a solo and ensemble artist, as well as with his primary organized sound project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh has focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. Collaborative partners include Tony Conrad, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Vito Acconci, Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, John Wiese, Lee Ranaldo, Rafael Toral, Aaron Dilloway, John Olson, LaDonna Smith and many others. He has performed in festivals across the U.S. and Europe, and appeared in the Lampo series in January 2007, when he presented two new works: "Two Mouths Breath as One" and "Amplified Violin" at the Renaissance Society. |
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| Michael Johnsen (b. 1968) lives and works in Pittsburgh. A tinkerer's curiosity with commercial electronics led eventually to the design and construction of his own integrated system of devices specifically for live performance whose idiosyncratic behaviors are revealed through their complex interactions. The extensive patching of large numbers of devices produces simple sounds, sudden transients and charming failure modes; embracing the dirt in pure electronics. As an antidote to all that wire, he is equally devoted to the singing saw, a simple folk instrument. Recent/important partners include Margaret Cox, Jack Wright, trio with Pascal Battus/Thomas Lehn; also Michel Doneda, Michael Zerang, Joe McPhee, Bhob Rainey, Tom Djll and Greg Pierce. |
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| MARK BEASLEY, JON CATES, JAKE ELLIOTT, ALEX INGLIZIAN, TAMAS KEMENCZY, NICHOLAS O'BRIEN AND JON SATROM JUNE 6 9pm |
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| Our spring season concludes with an epic audio/visual/data assault presented by some of Chicago's finest multihyphenates. |
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| Chaining disparate computational systems together, Beasley, Cates, Elliott, Inglizian, Kemenczy, O'Brien and Satrom transform Lampo into a kludgy hyperjunkyard. |
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| More specifically, they'll build a MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN. Cobbled together from broken computers, functional microphones, surveillance cameras, local feedback loops and international communication networks, this MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN rises up from foothills and climbs skywards. Audio, video and datastreams flow up and down from the mountain. Each foothill is a self-contained system (artist) that sends tributary audio, video and data via a matrix of mixer connections. All these streams are sources mixed in realtime into a multi-channel audio and video landscape. |
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| During the performance and installation, five of the artists will build the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN on-site while two are connected remotely via the Internet. All of the artists (foothills) will feedback and feedforward to expose the graceful musicality of faulty technologies. Decoding and rebugging digital media, the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN will exist for one night only but will be accompanied by an operator's instruction manual, to be written, arranged and printed live in realtime along with the performance of the audio, video and datastreams. |
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| Installed and performed live in Lampo, the MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN began through a collaborative process of free association and deep-linked metaphors online. A nonverbal montage of images, animations and videos posted to a group blog documents this process: http://6609.tumblr.com/ |
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| Their joint projects have or will be shown or presented internationally in Mexico City, Mexico; Madrid, Spain; Montreal, Canada; Linz, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic; Paris, France; Beijing, China; nationally in cities such as Boston, Brookln, Philadelphia and Chicago; and online on New Media Art platforms such as Rhizome.org, Furtherfield.org, Turbulence and Networked_Performance. They have organized spaces, events and platforms such as dai5ychain, dorkbot Chicago, r4WB1t5, BUSKER, HARDCoded, Chicago Hackmeetings, [FRAY], The Upgrade! Chicago and Version Festivals (02, 03 and 04). They are on faculty or have taught at The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College, Marwen, Street Level Youth Media and Experimental Sound Studio. |
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| Mark Beasley is an artist/educator making software, video, performance and web art. Jon Cates makes, organizes and teaches experimental New Media Art, including Art Games, Machinima, Computer Witchcraft, digitalPunk and Noise musics. Jake Elliott is a cyberpsychedelic artware engineer. This is not a metaphor. Alex Inglizian is a sound designer, experimental musician, computer programmer, electronic technician, and educator. Inspired by broken radios, children's toys, and vintage synthesizers. Tamas Kemenczy branches and merges interactive fiction, the demoscene and programmable spells. Nicholas O'Brien is a media maker and educator interested in the relationship between identity and virtual constructs such as memory, architecture and cyberspace. Jon Satrom performs real-time audio/video, databends multimedia computer files, and creates colorful glitch-ware. He spends his days fixing things and teaching. He spends his evenings breaking things and learning. |
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