Ars Nova Workshop presents experimental composer and sound artist Olivia Block, at Solar Myth on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.

Chicago experimental music mainstay Olivia Block is an acclaimed media artist and composer whose discography spans nearly three decades. At any given concert she might be playing electronic instruments, piano, organ or amplified objects. Block composes for chamber ensemble, orchestra and pipe organ, and creates surround sound concerts, sound installations and scores. Her most recent live performances are long experimental songs for voice, piano, and electronics.

“Olivia Block shows us that silence has every bit the ability to transform and transport as the most beautiful of sound.” – Pitchfork

Block has performed, premiered and exhibited her work throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours, festivals and performance series including Rewire,  MoogFest, Sonic Light, Redbull Academy, and many others. Her installations have been shown at The Nasher Sculpture Museum, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Arthur Ross Gallery at University of Pennsylvania, Manhattan Museum of Arts and Design,  The Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago and elsewhere.