Seven Machines For Summer - Christopher Willits

album name: Seven Machines For Summer - Christopher Willits
band name: by Christopher Willits

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1.	The Baroque Machine 01:33	download
2.	The Macrobiotic Machine 00:26	download
3.	The Roller Skating In San Francisco Machine 03:06	download
4.	The Kotekan Machine 01:19	download
5.	The Yellow Sprout Machine 01:52	download
6.	Seaweed Machine 03:02	download
7.	The Fall In Love Machine 04:42	download
8.	Champagne And Soda 03:31	download

about: "Seven Machines for Summer" is Christopher Willits' portion of the 12k compilation entitled "E•A•D•G•B•E", essentially functioning as it's own EP. This release followed "Folding, and the Tea" and predated the 7in "Little Edo".

E•A•D•G•B•E PRESS RELEASE (summer 2003) :

Instrument relatives of the guitar can be traced back as far as the 3rd century. Many adaptations were made to the interface over hundreds of years: 3, 5 strings, coupled strings, no coupled strings, 6 strings, always changing with technological advances in instrument craft, new materials from overseas locations, and selective pressures brought upon by musical fashions of the day.

The 20th century mixture of guitar + electricity (pickups, amplifiers, processing circuits) changed music as we know it. The 21st century guitar, still cousin to the third century Arabian ‘ud, can now be seduced by personal computers and software tools. The old stringed melody-maker, re-sonified and exploded though do-it-yourself digital signal processing, has assumed yet a new form of assemblage and mixture with modern technology. Suddenly the 6 strings seem refreshed, and open to a new notion of guitar music; a music generated from vibrating strings meshed with software processes.

12k embraces this idea by presenting four artists* who create contemporary sonic hybrids of guitar and digital processing. E•A•D•G•B•E is by no means trying to be a definitive voice of these practices, but rather a sound focused through the 12k filter of minimalism and subtle textures.

The title, E•A•D•G•B•E, comes from the root tunings of each string on a
6-stringed guitar.

*originally featuring: Fonica, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Sébastien Roux, and Christopher Willits.
credits: released 08 February 2003
All guitar and processing by Christopher Willits.
Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).
license: Some rights reserved
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