Orca Life has been played on NTS shows including Shamos , with Future World first played on 17 February 2016.

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.

Employing a host of synthetic resources, Roberts carefully constructs, and subsequently deconstructs,…