Christopher Willits
| Christopher Willits | |
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Christopher Willits in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 8, 1978 |
| Origin | Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Genres | Electronic music, glitch, pop, ambient, electroacoustic, experimental, noise |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, artist, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, computer, electronic musical instruments, vocals, percussion, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | Ghostly International, 12k, Overlap |
| Associated acts |
Flössin The North Valley Subconscious Orchestra Taylor Deupree Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| Website | www.christopherwillits.com |
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.
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.
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."
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