You could say that pretty much anything Roc Jiménez de Cisneros does is direct homage to the history of house music, but this new audiovisual piece for Lampo and the Graham Foundation is an explicit tribute to the legacy of early Chicago house music. Wonky bass lines and drum patterns get continuously bent, flexed, and contracted in unexpected ways.

Six Hexaflexagons for Chicago is Roc Jiménez de Cisneros' weird love letter to the tracks, producers, and sounds that shaped dance music, as a stream of awkward, locked grooves and algorithmically-churned acid motifs.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is part of the computer music group EVOL together with Scottish artist Stephen Sharp. Their work considers processes of deformation applied to post-acid house culture. Their recordings have been published by record labels such as Diagonal, Editions Mego, Presto!?, iDEAL, Hypermedium, and others. Much of Roc Jiménez de Cisneros' work is rooted in an interpretation of music in morphological terms: mutated forms, spatial relationships, and elasticity, both metaphorically and literally. Since 2013 he has pushed this spatial-material approach to music in different ways, originally drawing connections between holes and music, then extending the metaphor to folds and folding, to produce a series of pieces, talks, light installations, and publications that propose a reevaluation of musical phenomena as volumetric and topological structures.

Since 2010 the Graham Foundation has supported and partnered with Lampo to produce this performance series held at the Madlener House. Lampo, founded in 1997, is a nonprofit organization for experimental music and intermedia projects.