In a one-time performance, Chicago-based composer and sound artist Lia Kohl presents the world premiere of her latest composition "Music for Union Station," a chamber work responding to the Great Hall of Chicago's central train station. Inspired by the historic space's expansive acoustics, and an ongoing interest in the mundane and profound possibilities of sound, Kohl offers a soundscape for intentional audiences and train passengers alike.

NPR has described her music as "pure poetry", and Pitchfork says of her most recent album, " it's remarkable: she finds meditative grace in the city's most annoying sounds". "Music for Union Station" continues this trajectory, weaving together the sounds of the station and this new immersive chamber work. 

Co-produced by Experimental Sound Studio, the piece features an ensemble of ten Chicago-based musicians: Dorothy Carlos (cello), Zachary Good (clarinet), Gerrit Hatcher (tenor saxophone), Riley Leitch (trombone), Nick Meryhew (trombone), Beth McDonald (tuba), Zach Moore (upright bass), Jason Stein (clarinet), Macie Stewart (violin) with Kohl performing as well on cello.

About Lia Kohl

Lia Kohl's music revels in the mundane. Whether she's using field recordings of the din of the urban soundscape, or snippets from radio broadcasts, the composer, sound artist and cellist seems to dance with what others may hear as distractions, harmonizing the world around her in ways that change the listeners perceptions, too. Kohl's music is slyly revelatory, returning our fragmented attention.