Christopher Lock - Ephemerist

Computer musician, violist, and electronic artist Christopher Lock releases Ephemerist, an album of seven tracks that explore manifold facets of electronic music. This album is sonically lush and grand—it investigates aesthetic worlds that lie between experimental dance music, noise, ambient, and contemporary composition. In Ephemerist, Lock, whose musical background is deep and diverse, presents a series of pieces based on recorded improvisations on viola—his main instrument—which then are processed digitally in multiple ways. The connection between the classical string instrument and the possibilities of contemporary electronic processing is the tie that holds his work together in ways that are profoundly original, thought-provoking, and danceable.