Christen Lien’s provocative compositions, hypnotic performance style, and entrepreneurial business approach all reflect her passion for challenging the status quo. Through her art she seeks to support her fans to process the complex and oftentimes dark emotions that oppress individual potential and hold back collective power. Entertainers, activists, scholars and entrepreneurial leaders have responded enthusiastically to Christen's work and she is often invited to present her music, story and ideas to events and productions looking to compliment narratives of determination and fortitude. This fall she will release her new project, ELPIS, a 12-track instrumental album with accompanying visual artwork and written storytelling that explores the dark side of Hope. Lien incorporates the use of guitar effect processors and looping pedals with her instruments (which also include viola, bass guitar, harmonica, Moog synthesizer, drums and kalimba), creating hybrid, melodic music and haunting, evocative performance art.