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Overlap owner Christopher Willits just released his latest solo album w/ Ghostly International – Tiger Flower Circle Sun

Buy the CD + 12in vinyl HERE – (already sold out – new limited stock soon)

Buy the Digital Files (hi-quality mp3, flac) HERE

Supporting this release allows Willits to continue his creative process.

+ Here is a video about the album – Christopher Willits on “Tiger Flower Circle Sun”

The release party for Christopher Willits’ new album “Tiger Flower Circle Sun” (out July 27) will be July 31, 2010 at Twin Space in San Francisco. Willits will be performing some sounds from the new record and celebrating the project with everyone.

RSVP + all info here : http://bit.ly/CWJul31

7/31/2010 – 8PM – Twin Space Continuum – 2111 Mission Street at 17th Street 3rd floor suite 300.

Christopher Willits’ YouTube channel is alive and well : http://www.youtube.com/user/christopherwillits

Many new videos to come- new audiovisual pieces, new tutorials, new experiments.

Here is a short clip from a performance at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on May 14th, 2010.

Overlap founder Christopher Willits’ new studio album, Tiger Flower Circle Sun, will be released July 27th with the label Ghostly International.

Tiger Flower Circle Sun : Press Release

From Christopherwillits.com

This album brings together so many of the patterns, feelings, vibrations I love. For me, Tiger Flower Circle Sun is about the connection of all things, forms, thoughts, plants, people, sunlight. I opened my imagination wide and allowed the process to happen, the patterns to emerge. I have a lot to share surrounding the album, including some remix stems, videos, tutorials about the process, and performances.

The 1st single from the record is now free : Sun Body

Today (April 27, 2010) you can connect with Tom Hall’s beautiful new piece –
“Past, Present, Below”.

Grab it here and support Tom Hall and Overlap with a modest $5 :
Tom Hall – “Past, Present, Below”

If you like what you hear, please write about it and tell your friends.
We really appreciate all of your support over the last few years of experimentation and growth.
Thank You !

Tom Hall – “Past Present, Below”
“Past Present, Below” is the accumulation of 2 years of experimentation, bringing together a vast array of instrumentation (drums, guitar, piano, organ, virbraphone, chinese gongs and harmonia) and field recordings (Australia, Kyoto temples, German rivers, Tasmanian forests). Hall ties these varied sources together with a unique blend of studio practices ranging from Max / Ableton Live processing, analog effects pedals and a unique process of replaying and re-recording compositions back into environments in which they originated. This album is Tom Hall’s most developed and beautiful work to date, exclusive to Overlap.

Bio
Tom Hall is a media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. He processes and manipulates found sound and instruments with both computer-based processing (Ableton Live, Max/Msp/Jitter) and analog manipulation with creative hardware configurations. The pieces created during these experiments are then composed linearly and further manipulated by re-recording the sounds through homemade reverb chambers, resonant locations, and analog tape manipulation.
Hall’s work combines geography and earth, a sense of place and time and moment of the recordings he uses, with gentle musical gestures that emerge naturally through the recursive processing. Tom creates a swell of sonic memories gracefully touched by supporting instruments and tools.

more info : www.tomhall.com.au

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Christopher Willits solo audio-visual set + a collaboration with Jeff Pierre
dj8
Medicine Vibrations
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Twin Space
2111 Mission Street, 3rd Fl. Suite 300, San Francisco, CA
8-11pm – $5-10

Event info and Facebook invite : http://bit.ly/bGu6nl

A special night at Twin Space showcasing San Francisco guitar+computer performer, composer, and visual artist Christopher Willits. Willits will be performing with special guest drummer Jeff Pierre from Haiti, in addition to a new long-form work-in-progress exploring vibrational medicine.

Medicine Vibrations with also be performing their gorgeous body-vibrating sounds, dj8 will be gluing the evening together with his mixes, and a variety of food, drink and other vendors will be present.

Spread the word to all of your friends to join us for a beautiful evening of.

Bio:
Christopher Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts 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 19 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, 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 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).

Sun Boxes, a solar powered sound installation by Craig Colorusso
will be at the Important Records Compound on Saturday May 8th 2010.
Noon to sundown.  Details below + Here :

Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit.  It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels.  There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition.  The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the array.  There is a different sense of space inside.  Certain speakers will be closer and louder therefore the piece will sound different to different people in different positions throughout the array.  Creating a unique experience for everyone.

There are no batteries involved.  The Sun Boxes are reliant on the sun.  When the sun sets the music stops.  The piece changes as the length of the day changes.  Making the participants aware of the cycle of the day.