Celia Hollander

Celia Hollander, courtesy of the artist. Celia Hollander, courtesy of the artist. Bond Chapel 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, performer, and artist. Several records released in recent years have showcased Hollander’s creativity and versatility as a composer, each project establishing its own distinct sonic palette, whether utilizing an electronic toolkit or incorporating acoustic instruments and field recordings, driven by entrancing repetitions of staccato rhythms or melting into lush, shifting harmonic fields. Her albums often take shape around a central theme, musically extending Hollander’s investigations from the qualities of specific sounds and mental states to more expansive, fractal concepts like nonlinear perspectives on time or the massive scales of human-built global infrastructure. For this performance in Bond Chapel, Hollander presents new material from an upcoming release. Hollander’s discography features releases on Leaving Records, Longform Editions, Recital, and Noumenal Loom and she has performed at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY), and MOCA (LA). Combining acoustic and digital elements, her work investigates themes such as shaping time through composition, surrendering to improvisation, and music as a natural phenomenon of dynamic systems. An interdisciplinary artist with a background in visual art and architecture as well as music, she is currently an educator at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts and has created original scores and sound design for film, TV, dance performances, and VR. The 2024-2025 Music Series is generously supported by a grant from the University of Chicago Women’s Board.