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Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts, new media art, and a wide-open creative mind. “i am a conduit of the process, a kind of gardener,” he says. “I simply imagine, intuit, respond and do the work laid before me.” Willits’ tireless responding and doing and working has produced 20 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree—and an organic, multi-faceted sound that expands like the vines of an electro-acoustic kudzu plant. Christopher Willits is a teacher, a label owner (the experimental hub Overlap.org), a meditator, a tech geek, a visual/new media artist, and virtuosic musician in one. In other words, there’s no one out there quite like him.
Willits designs much of his own software, and his music is a holistic universe in which all elements are interconnected; he folds his guitar lines into bleary, unrecognizable shapes and polyrhythmic textures, adding strokes of percussion, horns, and his own voice until the whole glows with an earthly inner light. A full list of Christopher Willits’ releases and accomplishments would take up considerable column space, but a beginner’s guide to Willits includes 2002’s Folding, and the Tea (his watery 12k debut), 2006’s landmark Surf Boundaries (his first full-length record on Ghostly International), 2008’s Ocean Fire (Willits’ collaboration with renowned pianist / composer Ryuichi Sakamoto), and 2009’s Live on Earth Vols. 1 & 2 (a pair of self-released live albums dedicated to his fans and supporters).
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Willits has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in the digital age. Using custom-built software, Willits morphs melodic guitar loops and photo/video experiments into folded rhythms of harmony, memory, color and texture. Named “the center cell of a complex indie rock-avant-garde-electronic art Venn diagram in the Bay Area” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), and “The Picasso of Sound” (Tokafi Magazine), Willits defies genre distinctions while still defining a sound and style of his own. His guitar lines fold and weave into each other creating complex patterns of interlocking rhythm, melody, and texture.
Every project sees him evolving and expanding his creative vision. In addition to his solo work, Willits has created a vast range of music collaborations, sound installations, and film/video projects. His band project Flossin involves Zach Hill, Kid606, and Matmos, The North Valley Subconscious Orchestra is Willits and Brad Laner, formerly of Medicine. Other frequent collaborators include Scott Pagano, Taylor Deupree, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Willits' numerous releases and collaborative projects cover a broad spectrum of musical styles, and include one main commonality: Willits' love of pattern his unique approach to the guitar and sound + light.
Willits completed his Master's Degree in Electronic Music at Mills College where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Fred Frith. At Mills he explored structure-generating processes in music; a focus not unfamiliar to former Mills affiliates John Cage and Steve Reich. Prior to Mills, Willits focused on painting, video art, sound art and music at the Kansas City Art Institute.
In addition to all of this, Willits is a director at Sound Arts in San Francisco and Founder / Director of the experimental media label Overlap.org .
Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts, new media art, and a wide-open creative mind. “i am a conduit of the process, a kind of gardener,” he says. “I simply imagine, intuit, respond and do the work laid before me.” Willits’ tireless responding and doing and working has produced 20 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree—and an organic, multi-faceted sound that expands like the vines of an electro-acoustic kudzu plant. Christopher Willits is a teacher, a label owner (the experimental hub Overlap.org), a meditator, a tech geek, a visual/new media artist, and virtuosic musician in one. In other words, there’s no one out there quite like him.
Willits designs much of his own software, and his music is a holistic universe in which all elements are interconnected; he folds his guitar lines into bleary, unrecognizable shapes and polyrhythmic textures, adding strokes of percussion, horns, and his own voice until the whole glows with an earthly inner light. A full list of Christopher Willits’ releases and accomplishments would take up considerable column space, but a beginner’s guide to Willits includes 2002’s Folding, and the Tea (his watery 12k debut), 2006’s landmark Surf Boundaries (his first full-length record on Ghostly International), 2008’s Ocean Fire (Willits’ collaboration with renowned pianist / composer Ryuichi Sakamoto), and 2009’s Live on Earth Vols. 1 & 2 (a pair of self-released live albums dedicated to his fans and supporters).
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Willits has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in the digital age. Using custom-built software, Willits morphs melodic guitar loops and photo/video experiments into folded rhythms of harmony, memory, color and texture. Named “the center cell of a complex indie rock-avant-garde-electronic art Venn diagram in the Bay Area” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), and “The Picasso of Sound” (Tokafi Magazine), Willits defies genre distinctions while still defining a sound and style of his own. His guitar lines fold and weave into each other creating complex patterns of interlocking rhythm, melody, and texture.
Every project sees him evolving and expanding his creative vision. In addition to his solo work, Willits has created a vast range of music collaborations, sound installations, and film/video projects. His band project Flossin involves Zach Hill, Kid606, and Matmos, The North Valley Subconscious Orchestra is Willits and Brad Laner, formerly of Medicine. Other frequent collaborators include Scott Pagano, Taylor Deupree, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Willits' numerous releases and collaborative projects cover a broad spectrum of musical styles, and include one main commonality: Willits' love of pattern his unique approach to the guitar and sound + light.
Willits completed his Master's Degree in Electronic Music at Mills College where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Fred Frith. At Mills he explored structure-generating processes in music; a focus not unfamiliar to former Mills affiliates John Cage and Steve Reich. Prior to Mills, Willits focused on painting, video art, sound art and music at the Kansas City Art Institute.
In addition to all of this, Willits is a director at Sound Arts in San Francisco and Founder / Director of the experimental media label Overlap.org .
Comet
Christopher Willits Lyrics
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0.1 life is not to live as your own maybe you can…
100 Blaze Ils sont paniqués, hey, font les OG Tu n'as pas idée…
Apollo Kade So you hit my phone you hate me now I been…
B&T Ooh... La de la de la La de la de la Ooh...ooh... Talkin' t…
Blue Rodeo There is a comet Floating through this endless night Embrace…
C.U.E. Comet doesn't know when you get your feelings hurt He's busy…
Cometrosa Disappear, out of their sight Holding on to what you thought…
D. Kay & Epsilon Keeping it locked cause 10 toes I need a lock for…
Damantra cin't no matter if I'm trying I just gotta slow…
ForeignObject Me and my friends We're hanging from loose ends I have faith…
Geva Alon There's a comet in the sky tonight Look how it brightens…
Harvey Out here in the dark, I'm racing Racing away, from you…
Hazel Must have been a perfect disaster Perfect And it seems so …
Hey Champ give it all to me the sky called to my call Dark…
Hoshimachi Suisei あの空で輝いた 流れ星を追いかけて いつか君を照らすから 彗星のスターライト 生まれたばかりの 小さな光は 消えてしま…
I-Scream life is not to live as your own maybe you can…
Ithinkitsvexx All they probably think of me is that I'm fake And…
Ivory Woods I'm still drowning my defences My fears won't cave in (Fold …
Jon Waltz I need the cash out Gold like chain glow This is…
Kris Max & M.A.N Emulate replicate your music is fucking fake Eightys into th…
Kwon Eun Bi I found emotion 끝이 없는 행성 마침내 널 알아본 나 (나)…
Lil Alice So I send another fucking blue text message I think about…
Lonely Drifter Karen At the earth ? and as I fall I am like…
Lost & Profound No ship sinkin', of patch nor pale In my eyes sleeping…
LUAMEL 다시 너와 나 닿기 전으로 시간을 거슬러 올라간다면 다신 우리 둘 만나지 말자 세상의 모든 걸 부수기만…
Luke Stuart I don't want you to know I don't want you to…
Mary Bragg So this is how it feels In the front seat On a…
Meshach Jackson When you fall Like a comet To the earth You stay In the ho…
monaca:factory feat. GUMI どこで生まれてどこへ行くのか 確かな居場所も知らないまま 磁力のような何かに引かれ ゆらゆらゆらゆら揺られている ま…
Mr. Universe Some say I have no direction That I'm a lightspeed distracti…
Mycin.T 늘 내 곁에 함께 했던 날들은 조금씩 멀어지고 왜 이제야 알게 된건지 너무나도…
Night Argent It's time we've taken flight Cuz we are, we are The ones…
O.R.C In your own In your own In your own World I, I like (like) W…
P.B.M.N.'s Cisum Ooh... La de la de la La de la de la Ooh...ooh... Talkin' t…
Paperback I am a comet I'm not from around here When gravity catches…
Pierce Pettis A comet streaked across the sky while I was sleeping, Broke…
PunKake Yeah, I got naked yesterday No, It wasn't bad that…
RICKY LEGEND Please take me far, not looking back This tiny sphere is…
S-C-U Comet doesn't know when you get your feelings hurt He's busy…
Sally Crosby I'm not failing, I'm just waiting, after something so beauti…
sapientdream And I saw something moving slowly towards me Something which…
Saving Sunday I was driving in the middle of a beautiful night Stopped…
Senn Why are you crying? I'm just happy to see you And it&#x…
Sevdaliza Darling, you're all of the sun All of the lights Always too…
sewerperson (Crazy, how you put in time and He just don’t appreciate…
Shades Apart This Side of truth Unlearned in my youth Lines Edges on the…
Steven Universe Tom Scharpling Some say I have no direction That I'm a lightspeed distracti…
Suisei Hoshimachi あの空で輝いた 流れ星を追いかけて いつか君を照らすから 彗星のスターライト 生まれたばかりの 小さな光は 消えてしま…
Susan Egan & Tom Scharpling Some say I have no direction That I'm a lightspeed distracti…
The Bouncing Souls Storm is coming we feel fine Comet's burning in the sky Old…
The Forum A lonely headache sparks my memory "A handsome mistake" - yo…
The Jones Sisters One day you'll buy a ride on a comet And you'll ride…
TheRealTaco I'm off she shits quicker than I was on it…
Tom Scharpling Some say I have no direction That I'm a lightspeed distracti…
Victor Solf I’m playing? Playing with my kid We’re having Having so…
Wire It's coming fast. It's a comet. Coming this way, With your n…
YOASOBI 今静かな夜の中で 無計画に車を走らせた 左隣あなたの 横顔を月が照らした ただ思い出を探る様に 辿る様に言葉を繋ぎ合わ…
Zach Callison & Tom Scharpling Some say I have no direction That I'm a lightspeed distracti…
星街すいせい あの空で輝いた 流れ星を追いかけて いつか君を照らすから 彗星のスターライト 生まれたばかりの 小さな光は 消えてしま…
권은비 I found emotion 끝이 없는 행성 마침내 널 알아본 나 (나)…
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Capgungoesbang
I love the whoooole range of music you guys put out. Definitely my favorite label.
porkchop002
Oh yeah. SO keen for another Christopher Willits release :)
72twist
Very much reminds me of bands such as Stars of The Lid, Windy and Carl and Loscil. Going to see Christopher play at Cube Fest in Blacksburg, VA tonight. Cant wait!
Carmelo
Privilegiado
shannon chapman
Truly loved Envelop at the Midway on Sat. Fantastic!!
DTM4581
Awesomeness, thanks.
Maryann Kirby
beautiful
Tom McCaffery
listened to this during the eclipse.
aza4aza4 aza5aza5
Tom McCaffery yeah
Dan Macneil
In my sci fi world when i take her hand for the first time! And the last! Ultimate fate? Unknown!!