Chris Lock

Biography

Christopher Lock (lock-music.com) is an electronic musician, creative programmer, violist, film composer, and educator currently based in Asheville, NC. He creates densely textural electronic music which slowly mutates and morphs over time and is often saturated with abstract imagery of the natural world and biological phantasmagoria. His unique musical practice is a synthesis of traditions ranging from Baltimore area noise and experimental music, where he first started working with sound, to his background as a modern classical Violist.<br><br>Christopher received his Ph.D in Music Composition (with supporting courses in Computer Science at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) at Harvard University. His dissertation, “Resonant Simulacra: Building Artificially Intelligent Instruments, A Portfolio of Musical Compositions, and a Self-Analysis of a Cybernetic Workstream,” documents the development and implementation processes of his recent techno-musical endeavors. The dissertation focuses partially on building artificially intelligent musical instruments using Small Data. He holds a Master’s Degree in 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).

Education

• Ph D, Harvard University
• MA, Harvard University
• BM, Johns Hopkins University

Teaching Interests

- Music Software Development<br>- Music Production<br>- Composition<br>- Electronic Music<br>- Performance Technology<br>- Audio Synthesis

Research Interests

- Music software development, machine learning, data sonification, creative programming<br>- AI music theory, ethics of AI art, Small Data<br>- GNU/Linux and Free Software for music making<br>- Accessiblity and democratization of electronic music/composition pedagogy<br>- Computer-aided composition, modern recording and studio production techniques<br>- Electroacoustic composition, improvisation with viola, contemporary classical music, electronic musicianship<br>- Digital humanities, new media practices, media theory<br>- Film and new media composition, cross-discipline collaboration practices and techniques