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Folding, and the Tea

by Christopher Willits

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Lichen 03:37
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Poa 02:45
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Scrims 02:50
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Pentagonal 03:05
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Dopa 02:09
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Mesh, Then 01:26
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Re Trace 03:22
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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.)

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released October 13, 2002

all sounds by Christopher Willits.
Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).

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Christopher Willits San Francisco

Artist, guitarist, producer. One of the most diverse and prolific catalogs in ambient music, including collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Tycho. “I believe that music and art can catalyze inner change, and those changes within ourselves can influence changes in the world”. Also the director / co-founder of Envelop, uniting people through immersive listening experiences
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