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Artist
Olivia Block
12+ albums
experimentalelectronicelectroacousticAvant-Gardesound art
about
Olivia Block is a media artist and composer. Her body of work includes sound recordings, audio-visual installations, performances, sound design for cinema, and scores for orchestra and chamber music concerts. Her critically acclaimed recorded compositions, include Pure Gaze, Mobius Fuse, Heave To, Karren, and Dissolution combine field recordings, chamber instruments and electronic textures. Block creates site-specific installations and performances utilizing field recordings and found recordings, among other sounds. She also includes images from video, and curated 35mm slides. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, NPR's Morning Edition, and The Wire, among many other publications. Block's current work reflects her interests in site specificity, ethnographic sound, architecture, found/archival materials from the 1950's-1990's. Block investigates themes related to memory, human voice, non-human animals and time. She is currently working on installations which combine animal architecture, sound installation and landscape architecture. For twenty years, Block has performed, premiered and exhibited her work throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours in festivals and performance series including The Walker Museum sculpture garden, Incubate (Tilburg), Festival del Bosque Germinal (Mexico City), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Kontraste (Krems), Dissonanze (Rome), Archipel (Geneva) Angelica (Bologna), Sunoni per il Popolo (Montreal), and many others. Additionally,
