Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart
(ongoing)
BOOKING
United States: Ground Control (Andrew Stocker + Natasha Parish)
(ongoing)
Working from improvisations for a string trio — violin, viola, and cello — and voices, in interplay with analog tape processing, they far exceed the expected limitations of chamber music to shape a sound of dense, unsettled presence. In the interplay of vocal harmonies, repetition, incantatory melodies, and sinuous passages, something emerges that registers as memory without being so: a music entirely their own, without time or place, a form of tradition without origin that only rarely allows itself to be sensed in this way.
BOOKING
United States: Ground Control (Andrew Stocker + Natasha Parish)
Music for Union Station
Union Station Chicago, May 2025
Music for Union Station is a chamber work responding to the Great Hall of Chicago’s central train station. Inspired by the historic space’s expansive acoustics, and an ongoing interest in the mundane and profound possibilities of sound, Kohl’s piece creates a unique soundscape for intentional audiences and train passengers alike.
Union Station Chicago, May 2025
Music for Union Station is a chamber work responding to the Great Hall of Chicago’s central train station. Inspired by the historic space’s expansive acoustics, and an ongoing interest in the mundane and profound possibilities of sound, Kohl’s piece creates a unique soundscape for intentional audiences and train passengers alike.
Co-produced by Experimental Sound Studio, the piece featured an ensemble of ten Chicago-based musicians: Dorothy Carlos (cello), Lia Kohl (cello) Zachary Good (clarinet), Gerrit Hatcher (tenor saxophone), Riley Leitch (trombone), Nick Meryhew (trombone), Beth McDonald (tuba), Zach Moore (upright bass), Jason Stein (clarinet), Macie Stewart (violin)
The performance was supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council
and a gift from Zach Smith.
Recordings from this piece were released on SUPERPANG (Rome, IT) in January 2026
and a gift from Zach Smith.
Recordings from this piece were released on SUPERPANG (Rome, IT) in January 2026
The Sound is in the Telling
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola
Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola
March 8-29, 2025
The Sound is in the Telling proposes an incomplete but expansive sonic picture of 1224 W Loyola. Sound exists in sound waves, but also in conversation with (and sometimes inextricable from) meaning, imagination, sight, and touch.
Through a series of texts rendered in embroidery, videos, and sound pieces highlighting and responding to the sonic landscape of the gallery’s surroundings, Kohl pays homage to the possibility of mundane sounds to tell us when and where we are.
Through a series of texts rendered in embroidery, videos, and sound pieces highlighting and responding to the sonic landscape of the gallery’s surroundings, Kohl pays homage to the possibility of mundane sounds to tell us when and where we are.
First Breath/Last Breath
Western Pole, April 2025
Western Pole, April 2025
Disturbances
Jeff Kolar and Lia Kohl
(ongoing)
AUGUST 2024, TUSK Chicago
Disturbances is a site-specific radio performance and installation using FM radio transmitters, synthesizers, and electronics,
and broadcast to 27 radio receivers.
Kohl and Kolar explore the physicality of radio transmission and the intersection between music-making and transmission art.
Jeff Kolar and Lia Kohl
(ongoing)
AUGUST 2024, TUSK Chicago
Disturbances is a site-specific radio performance and installation using FM radio transmitters, synthesizers, and electronics,
and broadcast to 27 radio receivers.
Kohl and Kolar explore the physicality of radio transmission and the intersection between music-making and transmission art.