Alchemy (Installation), by Weilu Ge, Christopher Lock

Alchemy (Installation)

by Weilu Ge, Christopher Lock

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	1.	Alchemy Part 1 14:42		buy track
	2.	Alchemy Part 2 17:08		buy track

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Documentation of Alchemy from its installation in the WaveCave at CalArts Herb Alpert School of Music in collaboration with sound artist Weilu Ge, Spring 2018.

Alchemy is an immersive audio-visual work that chronicles journal entries from an imaginary alchemist at work. Their experiments and notes are documented through sound and image and, in a somewhat nonsensical way, attempt to find answers about the nature and origin of elements and precious metals. Although the alchemist’s notes and findings are purely practical and may sound like nonsense, snippets of random meaning are often gleaned, almost by accident.

These journal entries string together seamlessly to create a stream-of-consciousness narrative lasting 30 minutes approx. That material is then looped to fit the installation and venue’s temporal needs (estimated 4 hours a day.)

Major themes of this piece include: The identity of the real versus the synthetic, the finding of meaning in nonsense and human perceptual anomalies, the practices of science versus religion and mysticism.

This piece is meant to create a totally immersive audio-visual environment that one might become “lost” in for hours, which makes venues like the WaveCave (CalArts) perfect for it.

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released August 23, 2018

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Christopher Lock Cambridge, Massachusetts

Christopher Lock is an electroacoustic composer, multimedia artist, and violist. His works are often densely textural with dark imagery slowly morphing and mutating over time.

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