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).
