Folding, and the Tea
by Christopher Willits
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Or With The Tea
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Lichen
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Poa
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Scrims
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Filtered Light
07:57
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Pentagonal
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Dopa
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Mesh, Then
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Re Trace
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Constraints Generating
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Order (No Blueprint)
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about
FOLDING, AND THE TEA PRESS RELEASE (fall 2002) :
"The division of the continuous must not be taken as of sand dividing into grains, but as that of a sheet of paper or of a tunic in folds, in such a way that an infinite number of folds can be produced, some smaller than others, but without the body ever dissolving into points or minima" -Leibniz
The Fold is a pleat, or demarcation in a continuous form. It implies continuity, not discrete parts. A folded line never dissolves into striated points, it retains the fluidity of the wholeness 1. Although we can notice a difference or small friction in the surface, the line is never sacrificed.
Willits' trademark sound is the result of a melodic guitar lines, folded into and on top of each other in real-time. The rhythmic structure of the music is generated from this process. The light pinprick transients, (creases in the body), reveal the reorganization of melodic/harmonic passages. These are the demarcations or an artifact of a rearranging plane of sound, and emerge from the process of folding. Similar to a folded sheet of paper, the music is simultaneously fragmented and continuous. Melody and rhythm are folded into each other, they coincide and interlock.
Christopher's interests lie in music that is generated spontaneously, non predetermined. It is a focus on the aesthetic, and material implications of self organizing systems - how fluid yet geometrically dense structures grow from a set of interacting, well designed building blocks. His music is a direct result of the processes involved. Overlapping software processes recontextualize warm guitar chords and folded acoustic timbres into loose and fluid forms while still retaining a feeling of geometry and centeredness. These systems take on a life of their own, generating a music of constant variation and repetition- structures that persist yet gradually drift.
1 (Deleuze, Gilles, "The Fold" , Univ of Minnesota, 1993.)
"The division of the continuous must not be taken as of sand dividing into grains, but as that of a sheet of paper or of a tunic in folds, in such a way that an infinite number of folds can be produced, some smaller than others, but without the body ever dissolving into points or minima" -Leibniz
The Fold is a pleat, or demarcation in a continuous form. It implies continuity, not discrete parts. A folded line never dissolves into striated points, it retains the fluidity of the wholeness 1. Although we can notice a difference or small friction in the surface, the line is never sacrificed.
Willits' trademark sound is the result of a melodic guitar lines, folded into and on top of each other in real-time. The rhythmic structure of the music is generated from this process. The light pinprick transients, (creases in the body), reveal the reorganization of melodic/harmonic passages. These are the demarcations or an artifact of a rearranging plane of sound, and emerge from the process of folding. Similar to a folded sheet of paper, the music is simultaneously fragmented and continuous. Melody and rhythm are folded into each other, they coincide and interlock.
Christopher's interests lie in music that is generated spontaneously, non predetermined. It is a focus on the aesthetic, and material implications of self organizing systems - how fluid yet geometrically dense structures grow from a set of interacting, well designed building blocks. His music is a direct result of the processes involved. Overlapping software processes recontextualize warm guitar chords and folded acoustic timbres into loose and fluid forms while still retaining a feeling of geometry and centeredness. These systems take on a life of their own, generating a music of constant variation and repetition- structures that persist yet gradually drift.
1 (Deleuze, Gilles, "The Fold" , Univ of Minnesota, 1993.)
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released 13 October 2002
all sounds by Christopher Willits.
Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).
all sounds by Christopher Willits.
Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).
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A musician, guitarist, producer, photographer, filmmaker all-in-one. He occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe- hovering above the intersection of electronic music, guitar, new media art, and a wide-open creative mind. 25 albums in the last 10 years- solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree ... more
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