Olivia Block is a
contemporary composer and sound artist who combines field recordings,
scored segments for acoustic instruments, and electronically generated
sound. Her recorded work seeks to introduce and ultimately reconcile
nature with artifice in the realms of music and sound. In the process,
"organic" sound becomes subtly process, digitized, and abstracted;
"inorganic" sound becomes self-replicating and animate; and "musical"
elements such as chamber instruments are defamiliarized from their
traditional associations, freeing them to participate in the larger
aesthetic possibilities of sound. Block works with recorded media,
chamber ensembles, video, and site specific sound installations.
She has performed throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours and
festivals including Dissonanze, Archipel, Angelica, Outer Ear, and many
others. She has completed residencies at Mills College of Music and The
Berklee College of Music and has taught master classes at several
additional universities.
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.
Block has published recordings through Sedimental, and/Oar, and Cut.
In the September 2008 she joined the sound department faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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