Olivia Block

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Make the Land 00:00 Tools
Opening Night 00:00 Tools
Foramen Magnum 00:00 Tools
Heave To (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
heave to part 2 (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Heave To, part 1 00:00 Tools
Heave To (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Aberration Of Light 00:00 Tools
Heave To, part 2 00:00 Tools
Change Ringing 00:00 Tools
Pure Gaze 00:00 Tools
Untitled Piece For Analog 4-Track, Tapes 00:00 Tools
Dissolution B 00:00 Tools
Mobius Fuse 1 00:00 Tools
132 Ranks 00:00 Tools
Mobius Fuse 2 00:00 Tools
Heave To, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Heave To, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
dissolution A 00:00 Tools
Foramen Magnum (feat. Chicago Composers' orchestra) 00:00 Tools
change ringing (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
olivia block in new haven (excerpt 1) 00:00 Tools
May 31, 2016 00:00 Tools
Opening Night (feat. Chicago Composers' orchestra) 00:00 Tools
I 00:00 Tools
II 00:00 Tools
III 00:00 Tools
stop the sound of the big bell (live), excerpt 00:00 Tools
OliviaBlockLiveToronto 00:00 Tools
Enthalpy For Double Solo Clarinet 00:00 Tools
oil and water (with petra klusmeyer) 00:00 Tools
Oil and Water 00:00 Tools
The Whole-Olivia Block version-excerpt (bonus track) 00:00 Tools
Mobius Fuse [1] 00:00 Tools
Mobius Fuse [2] 00:00 Tools
Aberration of Light 1 00:00 Tools
UNTITLED 00:00 Tools
Untitled Piece for Analog 4-Track 00:00 Tools
möbius fuse 1 00:00 Tools
Live in Toronto-excerpt 00:00 Tools
untitled improvisation 00:00 Tools
A - Foramen Magnum 00:00 Tools
möbius fuse 2 00:00 Tools
Live in Toronto 00:00 Tools
Live in Toronto excerpt 00:00 Tools
Foranum Magnum 2 excerpt 2 00:00 Tools
B - Opening Night 00:00 Tools
132 Ranks (edit) 00:00 Tools
Four Sorts of Factitious Shining 00:00 Tools
Aberration of Light 2 00:00 Tools
Block Gibson Recoder 00:00 Tools
Moss 00:00 Tools
Heave To 00:00 Tools
Heave To 1 00:00 Tools
Heave To 2 00:00 Tools
Stop the Sound of the Big Bell 00:00 Tools
Interview w/ Kurt Gottschalk 00:00 Tools
132 Ranks (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
132 Ranks for Pipe Organ 00:00 Tools
01 - Heave To (part 1) 00:00 Tools
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Olivia Block creates electroacoustic sound compositions for performance, recordings, installations, cinema, orchestra and chamber music concerts. Her solo performances include partially improvised pieces for electronics and amplified objects, presented in a slow and deliberate gestural style that Steve Smith of the New York Times described recently as having “palpable sensations of volition and emotional involvement.” Block also performs original pieces for inside piano. Her compositions often combine field recordings, chamber instruments and electronic textures. In addition to her compositions for solo recordings and performances, Block creates multimedia works for sounds and video and writes scores for large ensemble, string quartet, and orchestra. Block has performed, premiered and exhibited her work throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours in festivals including Incubate (Tilburg), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Festival Del Bosque Germinal (Mexico City), Kontraste (Krems), Dissonanze (Rome), Archipel (Geneva) Angelica (Bologna), Sunoni per il Popolo (Montreal), and many others. Additionally, she has presented work at the ICA (London), MCA (Chicago), La Biennale di Venezia 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music, The Kitchen (NYC), ISSUE Project Room and Experimental Intermedia (Brooklyn). She has completed residencies and premiered works at Mills College of Music, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Berklee College of Music. Block has presented talks at additional universities in film, music, media arts, and anthropology departments, including Yale University, University of Chicago, and Indiana University. Her current interests include listening practices, ethnographic practices, and sound for cinema. Block has created sound installations for public sites and exhibition spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the library at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the Lincoln Conservatory Fern Room in Chicago, and at the “Echoes Through the Mountains” exhibit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Her latest LP/download release, Karren (Sedimental, 2013) has been chosen as “Best of 2014″ by The Wire, Pitchfork, and Artforum, among other publications. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.