Lia Kohl: Normal Sounds

On the importance of collaboration, community, and paying attention

Lia Kohl might be experimental music’s hardest-working cellist.

Since moving to Chicago in 2013, she has become a prolific collaborator in the local improv scene, while working extensively in composition, performance and installation, and touring the US as well as internationally.

Much of Kohl’s work is based on collaboration: She’s part of electroacousti…