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Planispheres

by Mike Block

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Sirius 09:45
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Pollux 09:19
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Cygnus X-1v 06:38
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Arcturus 10:06
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Small Steps 04:31

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Each of these tracks is like an individual star system, distant and self-contained in the void. At the same time, they are related and composed of the same underlying materials. This album is an attempt to recognize and identify them, hence the title, Planisphere, and will guide you on a journey of discovery and exploration.

This album features field recordings from a series of fully-improvised live performances at a warehouse in Brooklyn, NY. Each track on the album was a separate performance, each presented for just one listener. The singular audience's influence on the emerging music felt significant in the moment, despite being hard to quantify. My desire as performer was to improvise freely, with only a few seconds of premeditation as the audience member entered the room, so that each of us could discover the music for the first time, together. The unusually reverberant acoustics of the extremely large open spaces also served as an additional character for me to sonically interact with, and I found myself testing both the limits of what the room would send back to me when I played forcefully, as well as the limits of intimacy I could share with the nearby listener at my softest.

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released December 3, 2021

Produced by: Mike Block
Published by: Mike Block
Engineered by: Dan Cardinal
Mastered by: Dan Cardinal
Cover Art: Marian C. Holmes
Tracks Recorded: Brooklyn, NY: May 15 and May 16, 2021

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Mike Block Boston, Massachusetts

MIKE BLOCK is a Grammy-Award winning multi-style cellist, singer, composer, and educator, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the "ideal musician of the 21st-Century", and acclaimed by the NYTimes for his "vital rich-hued solo playing".

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