Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes solo composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.
Music for ___ is a series of mixtapes for specific activities: often contemplative, solo, domestic, cozy. Each mix is recorded through a transistor radio while Lia does the specified activity, inviting in the additional ambient sounds of life: neighbors, birds, cars, construction, bugs. This format allows for an experience of shared listening, shared time, and even a kind of shared space.
