Chris Oquist is a Chicago-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music moves through themes of reflection, disintegration, and transformation: the way things change so slowly that the shift only becomes visible in retrospect (and what it feels like to reckon with what's been lost in the interim).

His solo work explores that preoccupation not as an abstract mosaic of themes, but as felt experience, rendered in sound.

Written and recorded using synthesizers, drone machines, bowed electric bass, and environmental recordings, and often made - as he has described it - in "an accumulation of stolen minutes," the music triangulates the space between experimental electronic music, classical composition, and sound art.

His debut EP, CYCLES / 01, is a collection of four meditative tracks recorded live without sequencing. Among them, "La Memoria Trenzada de la Luz" draws on the physics of anyons - quasiparticles that retain a braided memory of past interactions - written in memory of his grandmother.

His forthcoming long-form piece, Transit Signal, is built from the recorded heartbeat of his son.

Oquist is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. He is also the drummer of Brooklyn-based electronic rock duo RIBS, who toured with Queens of the Stone Age and whose single "Too Long" has been streamed over one million times.