Body Sound does not enter rooms. It explores them. Tentatively, searchingly, with due humility. 39 seconds here, seven minutes there. For their first trio work – the Chicago-based musicians had already been heard together in various duo constellations – Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart make use of analogue tape technique: improvisations were cut, looped, rearranged; not in order to hold on to the fleeting, but to trace what had just happened. Violins, cello and voices let the room act upon them. Then they move on together. In times of loud claims on space, quiet discovery is a stance.
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart – Body Sound
