Christopher Willits
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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)
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Tiger Flower Circle Sun
4,412 listeners15 tracks
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Surf Boundaries
9,198 listeners12 tracks
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Folding, and the Tea
1,259 listeners30 tracks
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Pollen
456 listeners9 tracks
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disastercasper
New and beautiful track on this compilation, with money going to Hurricane Sandy victims! Please buy this 6+ hour comilation for only $ 10 http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com/
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AC_Geraghty
Remix of Portal/Sunbody....http://soundcloud.com/lukegee92/portal-sunbody-wilits-lukegee
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Biko_12
aaahh!!! great !!
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JBThazard
"creates patterns of vibrations with sound and light." WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
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Sophomorick
where the torrents at?
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dearlytiffany
this guy doesn't get the exposure he deserves, he should be so much more well-known by now.
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Plaidhead
"...feels more like what I wish Dan Snaith would be doing"
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jgomes2
excited for tiger flower circle sun
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StarCoreA
@posthumanson, Christopher has now released the facebook mailing list albums as digital downloads on his store: http://shop.christopherwillits.com/
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rocksaurus
amazing work. Love all the sounds that Willits shares
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simillarian
Such wonderful music
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simillarian
I usually don't hear anything great and special about these types of musicians. But this is one of the few that actually catch my ear. His music sounds really good. I like the style and his use of drone.
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lutenist
http://www.christopherwillits.com/promo/CW_feature_debug108_26.pdf In German !
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lpeugeot09
amazing sounds and very inspiring !! thanks cw for the beautiful art.
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hoddie37
Ah! you have no idea kwevej person. No one else that i know of is doing live improvised music of Willits calibur. Live, the guy is honest and beautiful. I just saw Willits in San Francisco and it was amazing. totally mesmerizing and gorgeous. If you want to hear the Surf Boundaries CD live then you should have seen a show supporting that tour in 2006-2007 ! From what i've experienced he is always redefining and refining his live sets.
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kwevej
live performance is completely different than the CD ... worse
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concretica
Join group electronic guitar in new electronic music!
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nita_disaster
i agree with the fourth comment below mine ;)
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safe-as-milk
agree with tyx but the misses are usually interesting at the least so its all good
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Bvalentine12
i have no idea how i discovered this artist but i'm glad i did
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