CHRISTOPHER WILLITS EUROPE DATES

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – JUNE 5th
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
@ iMal.org – 30 Quai des Charbonnages/Koolmijnenkaai 30 1080
http://imal.org/index.php?sub=venue_EN

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – JUNE 11th
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
@ Fluc – Neubaugasse 52/37 A-1070 Vienna, Austria
http://www.fluc.at/contacte/contact.htm

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – JUNE 12
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set
+ TSB
@ Palac Akropolis
http://www.palacakropolis.cz/program/2009-06-12

DRESDEN, GERMANY – JUNE 14
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set – 9pm
@ Thalia – Görlitzer Strasse 6, 01099 Dresden
http://www.thalia-dresden.de/kontakt.html

BERLIN, GERMANY – JUNE 19
Ableton Presents :
Christopher Willits – audiovisual performance + Max/MSP/Jitter/Ableton Live Workshop
Workshop at 7pm, Performance at 9pm – 10 Euros
@ eNKa – Elsenstr.52/ 2HH, 2 Etage 12059 Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/enka52

http://www.christopherwillits.com
http://itunes.com/christopherwillits
http://myspace.com/christopherwillits
http://twitter.com/willits
http://www.overlap.org

Busy times here at Overlap!

Though the visibility of our Max/MSP/Jitter/Live Salon may have fallen into the background on the site, our enthusiamsm for it has not! Please come by this evening, if you’d like to learn about the wonderful world of audio, video, and just generally data-manipulation for creative ends.

max/msp/jitter/live salon tonight

At 7pm tonight, you’ll find us at Sound Arts at 520 Hampshire in San Francisco. Barry Threw will be diving into ways to load and manipulate MIDI files in Max5. Regardless of your familiarity with any of the software, we welcome all levels and will do our best to make sure you can get a solid understanding to produce the work of your imagination.

swissnex and qb1 last friday

Speaking of Max/MSP/Jitter and Live, it was an excellent evening all-around at swissnex last Friday. Thanks so much for all that came by to support!

It was nice to have a chance to produce live video again, and here are some meditative images for those that were unable to attend.

cafe du nord this mother’s day, sunday 10 may 2009

And lastly, in case you’ve not been reminded enough — come out to Cafe Du Nord for Mother’s Day!

This event promises to be a very relaxing way to hang out with Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree and Classical Revolution. Singing strings, wobbly guitars and a wash of image will take you through Sunday to Monday feeling refreshed and renewed.

Overlap and Volume present

LISTEN/VISION 06
Sunday 10 May 2009 at Cafe Du Nord, Doors 7pm

Join Overlap for a floating Sunday evening of beautiful sounds and images.

Featuring

Christopher Willits (overlap/12k/ghostly) – SF local experimentalist / genre flexitarian will perform solo + an exclusive collaboration with the strings and horns or Classical Revolution (!).

Taylor Deupree (12k) – the man behind 12k who is always doing much more with much less. visiting from NY. his first SF show in many years.

Classical Revolution – an amazing group of players actively bringing chamber music out of the chamber.

$10, 21+
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm.

Buy Tickets Online

Cafe Du Nord and
The Swedish American Hall
2170 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 861-5016

Sponsoring Organizations :

XLR8R – amazing magazine and culture accelerators based in SF.

Friends of the Urban Forest – bringing trees into San Francisco.

Overlap.org – experimental music/art releases, events, and community.

santa fe was beautiful and i’m really excited for these events in boulder. !

BOULDER, CO – APRIL 18th 2009
Christopher Willits – audiovisual set – 7:00PM
@ The Old Main Chapel -1600 Pleasant St. Boulder, Co 80302
Communikey Festival 1.0

+ i’ll be leading a workshop / talking about a new writing that first i presented in LA two weeks ago. it’s called “Designing Process” and the focus is centered on structure generating patterns within real-time digital signal processing.
4/18/09 – 11AM – 1909 Broadway, Boulder, Co.

Over at Fabricatorz we launched the Cantocore.com website and are continuing to push on raising funds to fund selected artists projects. If you are in SF, we invite you to come to the Home Concert Preview next WED from 7-9. Tickets to the event are $50 and may be purchased at the door, or preferably, through paypal or contact jhoover.charles@gmail.com to process payment.

NOTE: If there is some other contribution to Cantocore by writing about the shows, contributing to the blog, helping record the event, please contact me to discuss bypassing ticket price.

Good friend Christopher Willits will be performing along with Chinese musician <a href=”Ma Jie“>Ma Jie. Wine and snacks will be served as well! From the RSVP list it will be a great mix of interesting folks from the area. We have a cap of 70 people, so please do RSVP today. More about the launch, project, and Cantocore.com Home Concert Preview:

Hi all, welcome to a new project which is a collaboration between Fabricatorz and Garage Biennale. Here are two levels of scale about the project:

“Art show in Guangzhou, China in September 2008 and then in San Francisco November 2008.”

And, a few more sentences…

“Garage Biennale and the Fabricatorz are bringing you Cantocore, a research project investigating contemporary art and culture between Canton (Guangdong) and cities around the world. The initial focus is a contemporary art exhibition with two versions of the same show in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China.”

There is a solid line-up of artists working on projects at present for both shows with the main concept being the ideas of import and export where projects in both locations are the same, but different versions.

Lu re-blogged the Cantocore Home Concert Preview we are doing next WED in SF, and so, I’m pushing out this post about the Cantocore project which is a contemporary art show that Lu, myself and Justin Hoover are pushing out this early September and November. The first instance of Cantocore is to generate some funds to help in production of the artwork. No one is getting paid from the raising of monies to support art production, so we are putting on a concert to preview the artwork for the show.

Lu wrote about here:

What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?

These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!

Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Christopher Willits.

And then there is a follow-up post on the Cantocore website:

Cantocore Home Concert Preview is coming up next Wednesday July 23rd, 7-9 PM in San Francisco. Right now our RSVP deadline for this event is extended to Monday, July 21st. And tickets are on sale right now for $50 USD! All money goes to the production of the Cantocore exhibition in Guangzhou and San Francisco. And, all contributions will be rewarded with praise, promotion in printed materials and on this website.

This event is a preview of the coming exhibitions, and also a home concert featuring Chinese traditional instrument musician Ma Jie and electronic musician Christopher Willits.

To reserve your tickets please do one of the following:

Call Justin at 415-425-1647
Email: jhoover.charles@gmail.com
Or use Paypal option

We are eager to raise some funds from those interested in the ideas which will gain both a plug on the http://cantocore.com website and then in our printed material. Feel free to ask questions here on this blog post publicly, or send us email about this.

Please participate in this project and if in SF, RSVP by next MONDAY, July 21 to come to the Cantocore Home Concert Preview.

Originally from Cantocore.com Launched + Home Concert Preview Next WED

Mission Creek, GAB, and Overlap.org present :

a great night of live music and videos by..

Tussle
Christopher Willits
The Drift
Eyes
Mi Ami
Videos by Nate Boyce + more tba !

July 17th (thurs) 2008 at The Gray Area Gallery !
1515 Folsom, San Francisco
NEW TIME ! = first band begins at 9PM ! (show ends at 1ish).

Mission Creek Music Festival
Gray Area Gallery / GAB
overlap.org
Mission Creek Festival Calendar

OVERLAP.ORG AND SOUND ARTS ANNOUNCE MAX/MSP/JITTER SALONOverlap.org and Sound Arts Host : Overlap Salon 01 -Max/MSP/Jitter

Wednesday night May 21, 2008 from 7-9 pm @ Sound Arts Recording Studio 520 Hampshire street, suite #206 SF, CA 94110

This first Overlap Salon event brings together users of Cycling 74′s legendary “build-it-yourself” software universe Max/MSP/Jitter. Cool Max/MSP/Jitter nerds will be able to meet, exchange knowledge, advice, and software patches. Max/MSP/Jitter patches covered in the Salon will also be shared on Overlap.org following the event. All participants are required to bring your their own laptop, beer (if u want) and thinking cap. WIFI provided.

This event is free but donations are *greatly* appreciated to keep this series running !!

About Overlap.org:

Blending the lines between a record label, event production company and social network, Overlap.org brings together a diverse network of independent artists and media connoisseurs. Overlap promotes and distributes music, video and art via its website and live events. Monthly releases at Overlap.org feature brand new material and live event recordings which push the boundaries of genre classification. On the community front, anyone can sign up and join Overlap.org and share their work for free.

* Contact: Christopher Willits

* Contact email: info@overlap.org

* Sponsoring Organizations: Overlap and Sound Arts

* Website: www.overlap.org

* Event post : More info: http://overlap.org or email info@overlap.org

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