JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER
(Booking Worldwide)
LINEUP:
Jeremiah Chiu - modular synth, Marta Sofia Honer - viola
TOUR:
2025 - Available upon request
2026 - Available upon request
NEW ALBUM:
DIFFERENT ROOMS RELEASING IN JUNE 2025 ON INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM
BIO:
The LA-based duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer have spent years refining a masterful interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds, both in live performance and across three albums for International Anthem: 2022’s Recordings from the Åland Islands, 2023’s The Closest Thing to Silence (in collaboration with legendary French musician Ariel Kalma), and 2025’s Different Rooms.
Drawing from their roots in Chicago's improvisational and experimental music scene, Chiu and Honer have crafted a unique sound, melding the distinctive tonal colors of viola and modular synthesizer into a cohesive and unexpected whole. It’s a singular aesthetic that can be delightfully disorienting, with arrangements being constructed and deconstructed in real time both improvisationally and via the duo’s extensive penchant for live-sampling. As Pitchfork put it: "you’re never quite sure if what you’re hearing is played ‘live’ or manipulated, and sounds keep darting over the porous border."
The duo’s individual credits are similarly formidable. Chiu performs solo, collaboratively, and in the trance-jazz supergroup SML. His fluidity as a synthesist and improvisational arranger makes him an asset in nearly any live context—a skillset which easily translates to work in the studio. His solo album In Electric Time was recorded live at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in LA and released on International Anthem in 2023. Chiu is also a sought-after graphic designer and visual artist with credits that include album layouts for Suzanne Ciani, Morton Subotnik, and Jeff Parker as well as print media work for Dublab, Lumpen Radio, and International Anthem. He has exhibited his visual work at The Getty Center, MOCA, and MCA Chicago, amongst others.
Honer is an active session player and live performer of all genres. She records regularly for film and television soundtracks, and can be found playing in a variety of ensembles including the Pacific Jazz Orchestra and Adrian Younge’s Linear Labs Orchestra. Her viola can be heard on recent records including Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX. Honer is also a go-to arranger and performer within the orbit of the International Anthem label, contributing strings to albums and performances by Makaya McCraven and Daniel Villarreal.
The duo's recent live activity includes a fall 2024 EU/UK tour with both headlining performances and support slots for Carl Stone and Arooj Aftab, as well as stateside appearances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight new music festival and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Summer 2025 will see the release of the duo’s new album Different Rooms.
“…the Los Angeles-based collaborators shape a tranquil vision of a Nordic landscape that feels just beyond the edge of reality.”
– Jayson Greene, Pitchfork