Am I a secret agent for the indie label Ghostly International? With all that I love from them, it would seem so. The album Tiger Flower Circle Sun by longtime XLR8R TV tutorial contributer (What You Talkin’ Bout, Willits?), Christopher Willits, came out a few weeks back and it’s doing it to me again. Experience the video for “Flowers Into Stardust,” the last track on the album, below and slip into a new gear. Intelligent Chill Out is back and we support that!
Christopher Willits creates patterns of vibrations with sound and light.
He occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts, new media art, 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 20 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, 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/new media artist, and virtuosic musician in one. In other words, there’s no one out there quite like him.
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