LIA KOHLWORK ABOUTCALENDAR
Lia Kohl (b. New York, NY) is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Trained as a cellist, she also incorporates synthesizers, field recordings, toy instruments and radios into her work, searching for a balance between virtuosity and curiosity. She gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recording, improvisation, radio broadcast and transmission. She often focuses on mundane or pedestrian sounds – sounds which often go unnoticed or under-documented, searching for the profound, unknown, and beautiful in everyday life.

She performs as a soloist, a collaborator and composes works for ensembles. Her performances have been presented internationally at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, Mattress Factory, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, The Royal College of Music (Stockholm), Cooper Hewitt, Union Station Chicago, Eckhart Park Pool, and Big Ears Festival. She has created sound installations for Experimental Sound Studios' Audible Gallery and Roman Susan Art Foundation. She has been a resident artist at ACRE, Vashon Artist Residency, High Concept Labs, Mana Contemporary, Stanford University, and Mills College and a Transmission Art Fellow at Wave Farm. 

Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, SPIN, Art Forum, The Chicago Tribune, The Wire Magazine, and Downbeat Magazine, and on NPR, NTS Radio, Kunstradio, BBC Radio 6, Dublab, and WFMU. She has releases on Drag City, International Anthem, Moon Glyph, Longform Editions, and American Dreams Records.





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