Lia Kohl
Music Residency

Lia Kohl 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. Kohl gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recordings, 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, composes works for ensembles, and creates sound installations. She releases on Drag City, International Anthem, Moon Glyph, Longform Editions, and American Dreams Records. She tours nationally and internationally.