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Lia Kohl performs a live rendition of Normal Sounds, her recent solo album on Moonglyph Records.

Equal parts reverent and playful, Normal Sounds is built around field recordings of anthropogenic sounds: fridge drones, grocery store beeps, car horns. Using a textural cloud of cello and synthesizers, Kohl alternately hallows and mimics them, offering them to the listener in a new light. The live performance will draw on Kohl's practice as an improviser, as she plays with and around the material of the album.

Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Frequent collaborators include Makaya McCraven, claire rousay, Macie Stewart, and Steve Hauschildt. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound.