Olivia Block
Olivia Block. Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk.
Olivia Block is a media artist and composer.
For nearly thirty years, Block has created multi-channel, multi-speaker concerts, sound installations, recordings and scores for chamber music and orchestra. Block’s sound pieces include field recordings, electronic sounds, and musical instruments, varying in style, and yet maintaining a distinctive emotional sensibility. Her recordings are published on labels including Another Timbre, Erstwhile, Glistening Examples, NNA Tapes, Room40, Sedimental, and Touch. Block is an instructor in the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute, and at Northwestern University in the Sound Arts and Industries program. Her new album,_ Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea_ was released in 2021.
