Years active 1993–present | Name Christopher Willits | |
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Born April 8, 1978 (age 46) ( 1978-04-08 ) Website www.christopherwillits.com Role Musician · christopherwillits.com Albums Ancient Future, Tiger Flower Circle Sun - Remixes Similar People Taylor Deupree, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Human Mesh Dance, Tycho, The Sight Below Profiles | ||
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Christopher Willits (born April 8, 1978) is an American musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. His music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital sounds are meshed into one.
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- Biography
- Folding
- Workshops
- Software
- Overlaporg
- Discography
- Compilations
- Collaborations and band projects
- References
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Biography
Willits completed a master's degree in electronic music at Mills College.
Willits, as a solo artist or in collaboration, has released music on the following record labels: 12k (USA), Ghostly International (USA), Fällt (Ireland), Sub Rosa (Belgium), Nibble Records (USA), Ache Records (Canada), Yacca (Japan) and Plop (Japan). He has toured throughout Europe, America, China and Japan.
Willits has participated in numerous projects, including collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Zach Hill (drummer from the band Hella), Miguel Depedro (Kid606), Brad Laner (Medicine), Nate Boyce, Latrice Barnett (singer/songwriter and bassist for Handsome Boy Modeling School), Taylor Deupree (12k record label founder), Scott Pagano (visual artist and motion graphics designer), Matmos. Willits is also the founder and director of the record label and community building organization Overlap.
Folding
Willits' guitar lines and harmonies are folded into each other using custom-designed software (Willits uses the term "folding" to describe the non-linear, real-time indexing, cutting and re-sampling of guitar and voice).
Willits, in an interview, further expanded on the term 'folding,' "It has a lot to do with time. I actually wrote a whole thesis about this, if you want to go to the Mills library and check it out [laughs]. It's a very simple process of recording something to memory and then indexing at different points. But instead of it being a granular process [a form of synthesis in which a sample is separated into 'grains'], I'm actually skating to different locations within this memory. So there's this continuous rupture of time that creates these rhythmic patterns, so these melodic patterns start to emerge out of this time processing technique."
Workshops
Willits regularly gives workshops on the creative process and his custom software. He hosted a video series on XLR8R entitled "What You Talkin' Bout, Willits?" in which he delved into techniques of making music with a laptop and being a professional musician.
Software
Willits uses Ableton Live, Max for Live, and Touch Designer for video processing.
Overlap.org
Christopher Willits participates in a couple prominent online communities for musicians. One being http://overlap.org which is involved in creative community building events.