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, 鈥淩esonant Simulacra:
Building Artificially Intelligent Instruments, A Portfolio of Musical Compositions,
and a Self-Analysis of a Cybernetic Workstream,鈥� 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鈥檚 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).
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
