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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.
Cheryl E. Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder. Her works investigate natural sites and ecosystems, and human relationships with them. She uses microphones and amplification to explore sonic intricacies, highlighting unique voices and soundscapes while addressing environmental issues. Her projects often feature sculptural natural-object instruments and field recordings from remote locales. Leonard’s artistic research has taken her to a wide range of wilderness areas, including Antarctica and the Arctic. Her works have been presented in concerts and art exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australasia. Grants awarded include the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, and ASCAP. Commissions include works for SFMOMA, Kronos Quartet, Small Press Traffic, and Funsch Dance. Leonard's recordings are available on Other Minds, mappa, Gilgongo, and numerous other labels. She frequently collaborates with visual artists, choreographers, writers, scientists, and other musicians. www.allwaysnorth.com
Leonard will perform recent compositions from her Glaciermarks project. Based on fieldwork in Norway’s Hardangerfjord, Jostedalsbreen National Park, and Folgefonna National Park, these pieces explore the lives and languages of mountains, glaciers, and fjords. Sounds played live on rocks, feathers, wood, water, and kelp are interwoven with recordings of wild soundscapes and site-specific improvisations. The resulting works invite listeners to consider more-than-human perspectives, and the complexity and interconnectedness of natural systems.