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The first single from the upcoming release "Too Small to be a Plain" by cellist / composer / improvisor Lia Kohl.
Single out 1/18/22
LP out 3/4/22
On Artist Pool / Shinkoyo.
Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs music and multimedia performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, theater, and sculptural objects. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Chicago Symphony Center, and Eckhart Park Pool, and held residencies at Mana Contemporary Chicago, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mills College and Stanford University.
She is a curator and ensemble member with poly-disciplinary performance ensemble Mocrep. As an improviser and collaborator, she has participated in cultural exchanges in Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, China and the UK. She has toured on four continents. Frequent collaborators include ZRL (Ryan Packard and Zachary Good), Katinka Kleijn, Macie Stewart, Jasmine Mendoza, and Corey Smith. She has played with Makaya McCraven, Whitney, OHMME, and Circuit des Yeux. She tours regularly with puppet theater company Manual Cinema and helps create 60 Songs in 60 Minutes, a monthly show with the Neo-Futurists.
Written and recorded by lia kohl between september 2020 and March 2021 in Chicago
Mixed and mastered by Matt Mehlan at the Stuudio
Lia Kohl: cello, synthesizer, voice, radio, field recordings
- Genre
- Ambient