Olivia Block, "Breach" at MIT Tull Concert Hall

Olivia Block, "Breach" April 18, 2026. | Presented by Non-Event, MIT List Visual Art Center, MIT Music & Theater Arts Section, and the Goethe-Institut Boston Recording & mix: Matthew Azevedo Video: Wenhua Shi Olivia Block is a media artist and composer, who is based in Chicago. Her discography, spanning nearly thirty years, is published on Another Timbre, Black Truffle, Erstwhile, Ina GRM, NNA Tapes, Room40, Sedimental, and Touch, among other labels. She performs live experimental music, where at any given concert she might be playing electronic instruments, piano, organ or amplified objects. Block also creates surround sound concerts, sound installations and scores. Her most recent live performances are long experimental songs for voice, piano, and electronics. She composes for chamber ensemble, orchestra and pipe organ. Block has performed, premiered and exhibited her work throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours in festivals and performance series including Rewire, MoogFest, Festival del Bosque Germinal, Sonic Light, Redbull Academy, Kontraste, Archipel and many others. "Breach" is a composition that combines electronics and field recordings made in various locations within the Laguna San Ignacio (San Ignacio lagoon) in Baja, Mexico. Breach places the listener in the lagoon from multiple points of view: underwater, on the shore, and inside of imaginary seascapes. The combination of field recordings and textures creates a subjective, often surreal aural space rather than an objective representation of a location.