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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 .
Saturn
Christopher Willits Lyrics
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6 dogs On Saturn You a bouquet Yeah, yeah If flowers grew on Satur…
Avenza It's strange how certain things can turn out how certain thi…
B.R. Stylers So cold, let's get physical Rollin' up Marley Puffin' in the…
Baby Col In love with you girl Hoping one day you help change…
Be.one So cold, let's get physical Rollin' up Marley Puffin' in the…
Blacklodge All, what has begun, is sentenced to end soon or…
Bobby Nair And I say to you, where have you been? All of…
Bryce Dessner Meloncholy creature Paranoid secret Hypothetic victim of pre…
Cavalier Lights die Fireside Sit next to me (our open hearts speak …
Chet Santana If I’m lost out here Will I ever see your face? It’s…
Chris-T & Matu There's not a memory You can call upon That fully constitute…
CHURAQ CYRIL V minulým životě byl jsem na sto goat V příštím zase…
cmd-Z Passed out last night Yea baby I apologize I was really drun…
Dead Boyfriend Always for certain, I am Sprawled out across the floor With …
DRIIM Something inside you Warms me Something inside you Fakes me …
Durow Holding on to Saturn's dark side Really couldn't take your h…
F-80 [F8/Pre-chorus]: Мы летим - астеройды Наша планета - Сатурн …
Flot I'm talking to you loudly Why can't I touch you? I'm holding…
Frxzbie Yıldızlar konuşur bazen ay ışığında Geceler hep suskun, sess…
Funeral I came for help Against my fears What harm did…
Ghum You got here late Another day A little drunk Oh what a waste…
Graeme Allwright Saturn (Saturne) (Andrew Kelly) He's eternal, gloomy and su…
Haley Smalls Baby come talk to me Come and tell me if your…
Hexe Knickebein Wo ist mein Schuh? Wo ist mein Schal? Wo ist mein Buch? Wo…
Hokes Floating off the Earth No need to go berserk I'm counting al…
Hollmspeed present N.E.C. Easy to poke yourself square in the eye Harder to like…
Honey Honey Honey I think I need someone I've been smoking the days away Sitti…
How I Became Invisible I float 820 million miles from where you are And all…
Jack & James I'm drifting in space Sentimental days Stuck in a maze Been …
James McAlister Meloncholy creature Paranoid secret Hypothetic victim of pre…
Jen Foster Words & music by Jen Foster & Glenn Rosenstein c'mon, take…
John Coltrane I ask Him when will I be free He said…
Kailash (Kurt A. Bruder Ph.D. M.Ed.) Just hanging out Right outside cause you argue We argue When…
Kill The Noise (with Brillz & Minxx) We are going 'round, like Saturn's rings We are going down,…
kojima plus Never knows best written on your cigarette Shaded by money t…
Last Dinosaurs I realize now I'm far from the sun I'm distant how I'm fa…
Lil Unde Smile! I boo-chicka-ah, beatbox on the beat If you really wa…
Lo-Fi WOMAN [Instrumental]…
Logun I didn't fall for you I just slipped for a minute Starting…
LyCos J'veux sentir le goût de tes lèvres, yeah J'veux voir le…
Lyn Lapid Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking Welcome …
Maja Francis Run run til the dust settles I always seem to Make things…
marianne beaulieu You taught me the courage of stars before you left. How…
Mastino In Wahrheit ein Alien, Kontaktparasiten M-A-Subatomare Parti…
Matt Van The rings of Saturn look so beautiful tonight From the windo…
Megastrom Just a little love is all I need. Just a little…
Mia Joy Did I give you those rings of Saturn Worn under your…
Milena Love at first sight, looking into your eyes I see another…
Mr.Saturn Uranus wormhole, drag me into deep space Sucking my existenc…
Mull3 Она просто офигенная - О-о-о! Эта любовь Она просто офигенн…
Nao I orbit around the way that you are Can't help but…
NotEnvy we’re just kids, lost, we don’t fit in, no (let me…
Olivia Paris It′s not that simple, when I break apart You have to…
Oxbow You are my son and I am saturn Do you see…
Pau Vallvé Saturn És veure Saturn i tot torna a lloc. L'abisme és tan …
Plastic Mermaids There's a field I dream of, Down the road I used…
Rebecca's Empire Saturn's waiting In the speakers of our car We're drivin' …
Rio Είπα θα σπάσω σε χίλια κομμάτια άμα κάτσω Αγάπη είναι να…
Riz La Vie From where I'm sat I'll earn some diamond rings and plaques …
Rossi B & Luca I’ve been standing here all night Laughing like I lie Why’s …
Royal Hell Darkness Black star Saturn Saturn ascends Blackness Dead sou…
Seven & Elvee Wake me up when I am sober Don't tell me that…
Skillet I ask Him when will I be free He said…
Sleeping at Last You taught me the courage of stars before you left. How…
Sleeping At Last - Topic You taught me the courage of stars before you left How…
Sponge Cola Almost had myself fooled Thinking all was fine Without you…
Starblaze How am I suppose to be In this hollow fantasy I'm not…
Stealing Love Jones I’m a thousand miles away I need to say I love…
Stevie Wonder Packing my bags going away To a place where the air…
strawberrysunset The stars in your eyes Light me up inside I feel so…
Sufjan Stevens Bryce Dessner Nico Muhly and James McAlister Meloncholy creature Paranoid secret Hypothetic victim of pre…
SZA If there's another universe Please make some noise (noise) G…
The Codetalkers feat. Col. Bruce Hampton In love with you girl Hoping one day you help change…
To-night I know it’s silly look down When there are so many…
V.A. She don't really love me so I sent her straight…
Vatra ti si moj kompas pokaži jug, sunca mi daj dobro je znat…
Virtual On The coast is cold A dark wind blows in my eyes I've…
Vold Book Spinning in circles like a ballerina She grooves with her or…
Wonder (Stevie) Packing my bags going away To a place where the air…
Xiu Xiu You are my son and I am saturn Do you see…
Đi Drži me dolje Ne dam joj prsten, nije Saturn Ne mislim više…
Ʌ She don't really love me so I sent her straight…
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