BODY SOUND brings frequent collaborators Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart together in a string trio format. The album’s pieces are all based in improvisation, and they’re all shaped by the spaces they were recorded in, which included two Chicago recording studios and the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. Engineer and co-producer Dave Vettraino helped out by manipulating tapes and sonically translating the unique qualities of the recording locations.
All of the pieces’ titles were drawn from Yoko Ono’s book of text scores, Grapefruit, and all consist of everyday items and actions. The compositions are intimate and delicate, yet they find ways to escape their confines, as if the musicians and their instruments are entranced and…

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