Continental Drift (OST) is the original soundtrack for a video travelogue that doesn't yet exist. Bringing together dislocated pop, arpeggiated guitars, and ambient material recorded in many different locations over the past five years, the album continues Lek's explorations into the meditative experience of movement. The album is presented as a single-shot music video, viewed from the window seat of a simulated trans-Atlantic flight, with the ten hour journey compressed into forty minutes. This work is an initial study for a future film essay, and is his first album since 2011's Screengazers LP.

"L'éloignement des pays répare en quelque sorte la trop grande proximité des temps."

(In a way, the distance between countries compensates for the excessive closeness of the times.)

Preface to Bajazet (1672), Jean Racine

Continental Drift (OST)

1. Driftr

2. Overseas

3. Austerity

4. Ambienz

5. Moiré

6. Ices

7. Grid

8. Eastbound

9. Zhuang

10. Descent

Lawrence Lek's work deals with the relationship between virtual and physical experience, prosthetic and organic systems, and utopian worlds through the production of site-specific installations, sculpture, and audio-visual media. His work with computing and its intersection with collective space come from his background in DIY architecture and music. Since 2013 he has been developing Bonus Levels, an ongoing series of virtual worlds, produced in collaboration with many artists and galleries in London. Recent exhibitions include Sky Line at the White Building; Tomb, Shrine, Survey-Marker, Spare-Part at Enclave; Tabularium at Slopes, Melbourne; Penthouse 4C at the Barbican Centre; Bodyscape at Parasol Unit.

www.lawrencelek.com

www.bonuslevels.net

Channel Normal is an online exhibition space that predominantly focuses on presenting time-based works and / or web-based works.

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