female:pressure #178 - Olivia Cirisan

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

Olivia Cirisan (b. 2001) is a musician of many kinds. A percussionist, singer/songwriter, composer, producer and audio engineer, Olivia’s work is often collaborative, cross-genre and experimental. As a composer, songwriter and producer, Olivia is inspired by everything and anything.

Having written songs for as long as she can remember, Olivia combines her percussion training, her love of electronic production and her songwriting experience to make music that swims amongst both popular and unconventional idioms. Most recently, this is exemplified by her 2024 record, MIDDLES, as well as her newest record with VIRID, Slow Images, released in October of 2025.

Olivia’s work has been showcased internationally, on radio shows like Brighton, UK’s 1BTN.FM, Latvia’s NABA FM 95.8 and Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide radio. Olivia has been a finalist for the 2022 Petrichor Music Competition, and her work has been featured in the 2023 Maker Music Festival. Her music has been a part of Untergeschoss der Pandora’s 2023 Pandora’s Music Box advent calendar.

Olivia is technical director and percussionist of FLYDLPHN, a mixed chamber sextet based in southeastern Michigan dedicated to the commissioning of early-career composers as well as extensive use of electro-acoustic, multimedia, and improvised performance. She also performs with her duo VIRID, an amorphous percussion and multimedia duo that exists between experimental, contemporary classical and popular music genres.

Olivia has also worked on notable projects such as John Luther Adams’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of Sila: The Breath of the World, the premieres of Michael Gordon’s Field of Vision and The Forest of Metal Objects at the Met Cloisters in NYC, and A New Age for New Age, Vol. 5. A collaborator at heart, she has premiered over 35 chamber and solo works by various composers. Olivia studies Balinese Gamelan as well, and was a 2024 Graduate Fellow in the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan.

Tracklist

Olivia Cirisan - The Octopus (2024)
VIRID and David Minnix - Bathroom Tiles (2025)
caitlin c. harvey - Virginia Park house felling (Circle One, 2024)
wetdogg - the most (2025)
Leith - Bardo (2023)
Taqsim - Ala Moj El Bahr (2025)
wetdogg - kimchi (2025)
little fly - Interlude (2025)
caitlin c. harvey - transfiguration (Circle One, 2024)
VIRID and David Minnix - Noise Grass (2025)