Folding, and the Tea - Christopher Willits

album name: Folding, and the Tea - Christopher Willits
band name: by Christopher Willits

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1.	Or With The Tea 03:56	download
2.	Lichen 03:37	download
3.	Poa 02:45	download
4.	Scrims 02:50	download
5.	Filtered Light 07:57	download
6.	Drifting Below The Oak And Redwood Trees 00:18	download
7.	Pentagonal 03:05	download
8.	Dopa 02:09	download
9.	Mesh, Then 01:26	download
10.	Re Trace 03:22	download
11.	Makes Shadow The Shape Of Half Moons 04:26	download
12.	Fold, Refold, Folding Again 04:00	download
13.	Free Singing Strawberries For Children 04:14	download
14.	Constraints Generating 00:58	download
15.	Order (No Blueprint) 02:20	download
16.	The Weight OF Your Body On Top Of Me Makes Me Feel Like I'm Floating And Sinking 02:33	download

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.)
credits: released 13 October 2002
all sounds by Christopher Willits.
Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).
tags: tags: ambient ambient electronic avant-garde avant-pop electroacoustic experimental San Francisco
license: Some rights reserved
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A musician, guitarist, producer, photographer, filmmaker all-in-one. He occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music ... more universe- hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts, new media art, and a wide-open creative mind. 20 albums in the last 10 years- solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree less