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Olivia Block "Change Ringing"

Change Ringing is the final piece of the CD trilogy including Pure Gaze
and Mobius Fuse (sedimental records, 1998, 2001). The series has been
Olivia Block’s primary focus for the last eight years.
It is stylistically, and to a certain extent thematically, consistent
with the other two works. The structure of the slow unfolding arch, the
focus on the use of space as a compositional tool, and the careful
combination of field material, ensembles of musicians, and electronics,
are present in all three works. Change Ringing is the fanfare which
closes the processional.

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,
set at play, and ultimately reconcile nature with artifice in the realms
of music and sound. In the process, "organic" sound becomes subtly
processed, 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 has released several CDs, has performed live in venues and
throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, including Festival Archipel in
Geneva, Sonic Light in Amsterdam, and the Angelica Festival in Bologna.
She will be participating in the Sound Field festival in the fall of 2006.
She has created several sound installations for galleries and museums,
most recently for the stairwell of Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
in January 2005.
Currently she is expanding her field of interest to include video work,
and she has returned to finish her degree in music composition.

http://oliviablock.net


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Tomas Korber "effacement"

Composed over the time span of two years, "effacement" draws on Tomas
Korber's work with guitar, electronics, field recordings and the computer.
Although comprised of six different pieces, "effacement" can be heard as
one long composition. The unifying qualities of each separate piece
reveal themselves with repeated listening.
As the music on this CD spans an extremely wide dynamic spectrum,
listening at a loud volume is suggested.

Swiss-Spanish composer/improviser Tomas Korber was born in 1979 in
Zürich, Switzerland.
He has performed solo and collaborated with ErikM, Otomo Yoshihide,
Mersault, Jason Kahn, Günter Müller, Dieb13, Dropp Ensemble, Norbert
Möslang,
Toshimaru Nakamura, Steinbrüchel and Keith Rowe, among many others.
Korber has released CD's on numerous labels, including Absurd, For4Ears,
(1.8)sec.records, Kissy Records and w.m.o/r.
He has also composed music for theater and film productions.

http://tomaskorber.com

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