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Concert Tue Dec 11 2007

Welcome back, Schmickler (and Lampo too!)

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Fresh from their last trip to Home Depot, and still a little buzzy from the paint fumes, local experimental music arts venture Lampo announces the grand opening of its new home, a second floor space on Chicago Avenue, between Franklin and Wells (216 W. Chicago, to be precise). Residing over a former post office, the new Lampo looks forward to bigger and better performances in the years to come, and happily announces show #101 this Saturday!

Electro-digital puppet master Marcus Schmickler returns after a five-year absence (two if you count his duet with Thomas Lehn) to grace Lampo with one of his most recent compositions, an eight-channel beast called "Altars of Science," this Saturday (Dec. 15) at 9 p.m. ($12 admission) Expect the sounds of digital ghosts getting to work grinding, mulching, and spinning horrible around your head at a dizzying rate. The Lampo press release mentions a lot of things like "Granual synthesis" and "cellular automata treatments of a string quartet," and that all sounds like biology homework to me. The proof, however, is in the burbling, crazy pudding that Schmickler with bring to a boil before your very ears. Take the processes with as many grains of salt as you wish, but don't miss the sonic tempests that result!

Lampo will return to its full seasons in early winter 2008. Check the Lampo site for more information about subscribing to their announcement lists (I highly recommend the postcard treament, as their design job is superb, and the postcards are a nice heavy cardstock...a welcome relief from more magazine renewal notices that arrive every other day).

 
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