Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

It might take a decade before you’re ready to make a record. Lia Kohl, Whitney Johnson, and Macie Stewart, multi-instrumentalists and stalwarts of the Chicago experimental music scene, have been playing and recording together since the late 2010s, in duos and on each other’s respective solo LPs. But 2026 sees the trio finally release BODY SOUND, their improvised debut, for International Anthem. Aquarium Drunkard spoke with Kohl, Stewart, and Johnson about friendship, the sacred, Yoko Ono, tape loops, surprise, improvisation, and more.