Orca Life

There’s something inherently artificial to be found within the cables and veins of electronic music. Whether it’s the wired, circuitous pathways or programmed effects, these sounds are often misconstrued as either being too clinical or prone to harmonic sterility. But as Orca Life, electronic synthesist and Wise, VA native Chris Roberts creates music that thumps and swells in measured movements, with a beating, experimental heart pumping electronic pulses through a host of twisting synapses.