Andrew Fenchel is the founder and director of Lampo, a nonprofit organization in Chicago that promotes and supports artists working in experimental sound and intermedia. He has organized over 250 special projects and performances.
Waxing Walker: Resonance in Review
“In the final minutes of Resonance, we heard voices and song, dance beats and celebration. Our last sounds were from some distant cultural performance I could not place,” writes Andrew Fenchel of the Walker’s May 18 sound art marathon. The daylong celebration of interdisciplinary experimentation offered performances that blurred the division between the visual and performing arts by putting sound—field recordings, found sound, jazz, electronics—in dialogue with video, everyday objects, sculptural instruments, and light.