WHITNEY JOHNSON + LIA KOHL + MACIE STEWART
ABOUT
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart are a trio who utilize string instruments, voices, and manual tape effect processing to craft compositions from alternately tranquil and disquieting improvised music. The three musicians are individually rooted in deep sound exploration, multi-disciplinary composition, and all manner of cross-genre collaboration. The musical ground covered by their solo practices is correspondingly expansive, and their individual recording and performance credits read as a veritable who’s who, ranging from DIY darlings to household names of experimental avant-garde, electronic, indie rock, and more.
The trio’s collective sound is based in improvisation—automatic, intuitive composition via their three voices and three string instruments (viola, cello, and violin, respectively). Their influences are vast—dispatched with more playful ease than a trio of string instruments is typically approached with, and just as likely to be found in the cloud-obscured mountains of Donegal, the low-rent cacophony of a midwestern basement, or the revelatory expanse of the Nurse With Wound list as in the storied halls of the academy.
WHITNEY JOHNSON
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LIA KOHL
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MACIE STEWART
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Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart are a trio who utilize string instruments, voices, and manual tape effect processing to craft compositions from alternately tranquil and disquieting improvised music. The three musicians are individually rooted in deep sound exploration, multi-disciplinary composition, and all manner of cross-genre collaboration. The musical ground covered by their solo practices is correspondingly expansive, and their individual recording and performance credits read as a veritable who’s who, ranging from DIY darlings to household names of experimental avant-garde, electronic, indie rock, and more.
The trio’s collective sound is based in improvisation—automatic, intuitive composition via their three voices and three string instruments (viola, cello, and violin, respectively). Their influences are vast—dispatched with more playful ease than a trio of string instruments is typically approached with, and just as likely to be found in the cloud-obscured mountains of Donegal, the low-rent cacophony of a midwestern basement, or the revelatory expanse of the Nurse With Wound list as in the storied halls of the academy.
WHITNEY JOHNSON
website
LIA KOHL
website
MACIE STEWART
website
UPCOMING SHOWS
4.22 Pittsburgh PA: Mattress Factory
4.23 East Meredith NY: West Kortright Center
4.26 Philadelphia PA: First Unitarian Church
4.27 Baltimore MD: 2640 Space
4.28 Kingston, NY: Tubby’s
4.29 Portland ME: Washington Baths
4.30 Brattleboro VT: Epsilon Spires
5.1 North Adams MA: Tourists Welcome
5.2 Brooklyn NY: Long Play Festival
5.7 Chicago IL Constellation
6.3 Stockholm SE: Fasching
6.4 Berlin DE: Kiezsalon
6.6 London UK: Cafe Oto
6.9 Poitiers FR: Conforte Moderne
BOOKING
United States: Ground Control Touring (Andrew Stocker + Natasha Parish)
natasha@groundcontroltouring.com
astocker@groundcontroltouring.com
Europe: Swamp Booking (Giorgio Salmoiraghi)
giorgio.swampbooking@gmail.com
4.22 Pittsburgh PA: Mattress Factory
4.23 East Meredith NY: West Kortright Center
4.26 Philadelphia PA: First Unitarian Church
4.27 Baltimore MD: 2640 Space
4.28 Kingston, NY: Tubby’s
4.29 Portland ME: Washington Baths
4.30 Brattleboro VT: Epsilon Spires
5.1 North Adams MA: Tourists Welcome
5.2 Brooklyn NY: Long Play Festival
5.7 Chicago IL Constellation
6.3 Stockholm SE: Fasching
6.4 Berlin DE: Kiezsalon
6.6 London UK: Cafe Oto
6.9 Poitiers FR: Conforte Moderne
BOOKING
United States: Ground Control Touring (Andrew Stocker + Natasha Parish)
natasha@groundcontroltouring.com
astocker@groundcontroltouring.com
Europe: Swamp Booking (Giorgio Salmoiraghi)
giorgio.swampbooking@gmail.com
RECORDINGS
BODY SOUND
International Anthem
→. PRE-ORDER HERE
BODY SOUND [STONE PIECE]
International Anthem
BODY SOUND
International Anthem
→. PRE-ORDER HERE
BODY SOUND [STONE PIECE]
International Anthem
→. LISTEN HERE