Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl
Macie Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and improviser whose work spans a wide variety of contexts. Lia Kohl is a cellist and multidisciplinary artist who creates and performs embodied music and multimedia performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, theatre, and sculptural objects.
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Macie Stewart
Macie Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and improviser based in Chicago, IL. Stewart's work spans a wide variety of contexts, beginning with her formal training on piano and violin and expanding into self-taught guitar work and songwriting. This work has included co-founding internationally touring projects like OHMME; arranging strings for artists like SZA and Whitney; and improvising with Ken Vandermark's Marker, Tomeka Reid, and Rob Mazurek.
Lia Kohl
Lia Kohl is a cellist and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs embodied music and multimedia performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, theatre, and sculptural objects. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Chicago Symphony Center, and Eckhart Park Pool, and held residencies at Mana Contemporary Chicago, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mills College, and Stanford University.
She is a curator and ensemble member with poly-disciplinary performance ensemble Mocrep. As an improviser and collaborator, she has participated in cultural exchanges in Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, and the UK. She has toured on four continents. Frequent collaborators include ZRL (Ryan Packard and Zachary Good), Katinka Kleijn, Macie Stewart, Jasmine Mendoza, Corey Smith, Whitney Johnson (Matchess), and Iris Bernblum. She plays with Makaya McCraven, Whitney, OHMME, and Circuit des Yeux. She tours regularly with puppet theatre company Manual Cinema and helps create “60 Songs in 60 Minutes,” a monthly show with the Neo-Futurists.