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Chicago, IL 60680
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ROC JIMÉNEZ DE CISNEROS SAT OCT 22 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place Admission FREE |
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| Lampo and the Graham Foundation are very happy to bring you Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. Here, in his Chicago debut, he premieres "Tetralemma + Tetrafluoroethane," a new 4-channel work for electronic sounds and hand-held air horns. The piece deals with some of his long-standing and, well, blurb-resistant interests. He's into mereology, or the theory of part-whole relations, as it applies to the playback system and compositional structure. He also tackles the concept of imitation in music, where acoustic sources emulate the aesthetics and techniques in his computer work. |
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| Sending similar, but not identical, audio streams to each speaker, Roc attempts to raise several questions: How does the interaction between different channels affect the overall structure? Can we perceive parts within the parts? Can we really focus our attention on one specific source? |
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| Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (b. 1975, Barcelona) is an artist and composer, and co-founder of the computer music project EVOL, which began in 1996. His work is a radical and playful exploration of algorithmic composition. Heavily influenced and inspired by cosmology, noise and rave culture, he describes his recordings, installations and performances as "computer music for hooligans." His output has been released on labels such as Entr'acte, Presto!?, Mego, Fals.ch and ALKU, which he runs with Anna Ramos. He has performed extensively throughout the world. He lives and works in Barcelona. |
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LEIF ELGGREN SAT NOV 19 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place Admission FREE |
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| If we define our ideals by the heroes we choose, let Lampo choose Leif Elggren. The Swedish artist makes his first Chicago appearance in nearly five years, performing new work for voice and live electronics. |
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| Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren (b. 1950, Linköping, Sweden) is a writer, visual artist, art book publisher, stage performer and composer based in Stockholm. His varied and prolific output routinely involves dreams, subtle absurdities and social hierarchies turned upside-down. His audio work, solo and with the Sons of God (with Kent Tankred), is often created as the soundtrack to an installation or experimental stage performance, and has been released on Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. Elggren also is the benevolent co-monarch (with Carl Michael von Hausswolff) of Elgaland-Vargaland, all areas of no-man's land, territories between national boundaries on both land and sea, digital and mental spaces. This nation has its own national anthem, flag, coat of arms, currency, citizens and ministers. |
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| Elggren last performed at Lampo in February 2007, together with Kevin Drumm. In that concert he presented, "If Other People Exist Then They Are Totally Sealed Secrets (The Voice as an Irregular Sound Generator)," a work for spoken word, electronics, motors and vibrating tin can crowns. Elggren's text from the piece was printed in a leaflet designed by Lampo, and published in a 2011 monograph by Firework Edition under the title, "Something Like Seeing in the Dark." |
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| With support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation |
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GREG KELLEY SAT DEC 3 8pm Graham Foundation Madlener House 4 West Burton Place Admission FREE |
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| Ring in the holidays with Greg Kelley. Tonight, he premieres "Soft Delete/Purgative Dryness," a two-part piece exploring themes of philosophical and aesthetic absence, including the potential absence of meaning and content. The solo work will feature amplified but otherwise acoustic trumpet and some pre-recorded electronic elements. |
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| Greg Kelley (b. 1973, Boston) began studying the trumpet at age 10. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where in addition to studying the conservatory curriculum, he also immersed himself in a deep study of avant-garde and experimental music, eventually coming to the conclusion that his musical focus fell outside of the academic sphere. After his studies, Kelley moved back to his native Massachusetts, quickly insinuated himself into the local avant-garde circles and soon commenced a period of intense travel and collaboration, bringing him across the United States, throughout Europe, Japan and South America. He has appeared on over 60 albums and plays in a number of groups including Nmperign (as abstract improvisatory duo and as horn section for ex-Galaxie 500-ers Damon & Naomi), Heathen Shame, the undr quartet and the BSC, among others. Other collaborators have included Jandek, Keiji Haino, Donald Miller (Borbetomagus), Anthony Braxton, Kevin Drumm, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee and Lionel Marchetti. In addition to playing the trumpet, he also has recorded music using electronics and musique concrète elements, sometimes using trumpet based sound sources, other times not. Kelley is also the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. |
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| Kelley last performed at Lampo in April 2006 with "Trumpets Sound and I Hear Thunder Boom," a solo meditation on longing, using a stolen introduction (from the Jackie DeShannon 1963 song, "When You Walk in the Room") and amplified trumpet. |
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| Performances presented in partnership with the Graham Foundation |
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