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BLOCK, OLIVIA

Album Format Label & Cat. Number Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
Pure Gaze CD Sedimental SED026CD back in stock, the very FIRST album of by this US composer who combines field recordings & acoustic & instrumental objects to a unique melange 1999 €14.00
Mobius Fuse CD Sedimental sedcd031 back in stock the great 2nd album of this US-composer from Chicago (once a member of ALIAL STRAA) combining microdetail field recordings (wind, birds, ice, insects) with instrumental sounds and manipulating it electronically.. 2001 €13.50
Karren LP Sedimental SEDLP062 a piece in two long parts that show OLIVIA BLOCKs great compositional skills between electro-acoustic creation and orchestral sounds: field recordings from orchestra rehearsals and public locations are set into contrast with one in real time performed score (by the 'Chicago Composer's Orchestra); the meaning and background of the phrase "Karren" opens up diverse sophisticated inter-relations from her interest in anthropology and sociology; lim. 500 2013 €19.00
Dissolution LP Glistening Examples GLEX1603 phantastic new LP by OLIVIA BLOCK which moves from incredible collage music to polymorphing shortwave drone muzak and beyond, also lots of differently mutated vocal & voice material is present....[sound sources: found and personal microcassette tapes, NIST time recordings, shortwave radio broadcasts, municipial audio feets from several US cities, field recordings from various sites, musicians playing clarinet and flute]; two side-long pieces about the human "webs of significance".. 2016 €27.50