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This year, Soundbox 7 is excited to feature works, live performances, emergent art(s), and improvisational practices that embody DIY approaches, offer real-time solutions, and utilize improvisation as a vital tool for addressing pressing global issues identified by the United Nations, including Environmental and Global Health, Gender Equality, Humanitarianism, and Technology and Innovation.
We are especially interested in submissions that utilize improvisation as:
Improvisation as Method
Improvisation as Action
Improvisation as Research
Improvisation as Critical and Creative
Improvisation as Human Liberatory Practice
Christopher Lock is a computer musician, creative programmer, and film composer currently based in Cambridge, MA. He creates densely textural electronic music which slowly mutates and morphs over time and is often saturated with dark imagery or phantasmagoria. His musical practice stems from a tradition of Baltimore area noise music, where he first started experimenting with sound. Throughout his education Christopher has been fortunate to study with such musical visionaries as Esperanza Spalding, Meredith Monk, Vijay Iyer, Claire Chase, Thomas Dolby, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku.
Christopher has released his music on labels such as Geryon (NYC) and Idolatrous Records (Cambridge). He has worked with world renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Tak Ensemble, Ensemble WasteLAnd, Switch~ Ensemble, Elision Ensemble, Line Upon Line, and Wet Ink. In the spring of 2022 Christopher was the appointed Teaching Fellow for Esperanza Spalding’s Songwright's Apothecary Lab at Harvard University where he worked with Prof. Spalding and the students intimately during the semester to develop a concert program of new original works.
Christopher is an active composer of film music and has worked with artists such as Ezekiel Goodman (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Robert Eng (Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Corroline). In January of 2022 Christopher composed original music for Giovanna Molina's "Deer Girl" which was an official selection for the Sundance Institute's Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. In the summer of 2019 his audio/visual work, in collaboration with his grandmother (also called Chris Lock), was screened at the Venice Biennale from May 8 to June 4. The video was projected in the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava as part of the UK's Alive In The Universe project. Christopher is currently a Ph.D candidate in Music (with supporting courses in Computer Science) at Harvard University. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Music from Harvard, a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Music from Johns Hopkins University (Peabody Conservatory), and a second Bachelor's degree in viola performance (also from Hopkins).
Listen to Christopher Lock's "Heavy Drone Works".
All events take place in the Memorial Union, room 109 unless otherwise indicated.
For the full, detailed schedule, click here.
OSU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and creative practitioners worldwide are invited to submit intermedia and interdisciplinary works. We welcome submissions utilizing sound, text, music, radio art, VR, games, computer science, AI, video art, performance art, social media art, visual art, graphic design, digital installations, and more. Please complete the submission form and submit a link to your work by midnight (PST), Sunday, March 24, 2024.
Additional support and special thanks to College of Liberal Arts, Dean Larry Rodgers, Peter Swendsen, Director of School of Visual, Performing, and Design Arts, and PRAx.
