BACK FROM EUROPE - SF STUDIO TIME

sooo many thanks to everyone that made the europe tour a success.

it was awesome to connect with everyone and i had a blast. i’ll post some images soon and i have a bunch of live recordings that may turn into something.

very happy to be back in SF working on so many new things.

BERLIN PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP

hey everyone,

last event of tour in europe this friday, and it’s going to be a great one.

ableton live is presenting this performance and workshop :
http://www.ableton.com/willits

When:
Friday, June 19th
7:00 pm, Christopher Willits - Ableton Live/MAX/MSP/Jitter workshop
9:00 pm, kyoka - DJ set
10:00 pm, Christopher Willits - audiovisual performance

Where:
eNKa
Elsenstr. 52, 2nd courtyard, 2nd floor
12059 Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/enka52

just got back from a meeting at ableton headquarters. man, i am soooooo excited to share some things with all of you when the time is right. oh my oh yes. ahhhh ! ableton live is now ableton love.

IN EUROPE - VIENNA, PRAGUE, DRESDEN SETS

having great time meeting everyone over here and experimenting with my sets. very excited to share some of these recordings i’m making. maybe time for a live release ? send me your thoughts.
i feel so free and happy expressing these vibrations and i feel so much love surrounding.

tomorrow i’m headed to berlin for a few days before a special friday night event that Ableton has put together -
BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19
Christopher Willits - audiovisual performance + Max/MSP/Jitter/Ableton Live Workshop
Workshop at 7pm, Performance at 9pm - 10 Euros
@ eNKa - Elsenstr.52/ 2HH, 2 Etage 12059 Berlin

here’s a pic from praha :

IN EUROPE - BRUSSELS SET

the show in brussels was cool, great to be back here again ! sets by my friends quix and christina vantzou were awesome. i was operating on no sleep and played a long improv set that felt like a bed of energy.

here is a pic christina took..

headed to vienna next. all dates here : europe tour

WYTBW XLR8R TV EPISODE 11 - SOUND AND IMAGE

the new “what you talkin’ bout willits” XLR8R TV episode is now up. #11 of the series and #111 of all XLR8R videos. quite auspicious. i love 1’s. and i love sound and image overlap, and i love showing people how to bring the beauty home. let’s do this.

http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/111

if you like it, please share it with others, buy my art, come to a show, and support what i’m up to.

EUROPE IN JUNE + PORTLAND MAY 24th

very excited to get back to europe for a few shows !

all europe dates here + portland on may 24th (set w/ nate boyce) before : http://christopherwillits.com/events.html

brussels flier :

MoMA MIX by PREFUSE 73

prefuse 73 dropped this mix for a monday night NYC MoMA party with some of my sounds in there somewhere.. among many killer selections.
+ you can also hear our bud zach hill slicing the hi-hats for a couple mins.

http://flavorwire.com/19714/exclusive-prefuse-73s-moma-monday-nights-podcast

BACK ON PLANET EARTH

so many thanks to everyone that came out to cafe du nord last night !
it was an amazing night of music, and one of the best overlap.org events so far.
the experiment worked and we hope to have more events like this at du nord in the future.

i’m back in SF for a couple weeks, working on tons of studio work, video ideas, and new performance experimentation.. then the next show in portland and europe in june. !

MAY 10TH 2009 - CAFE DU NORD - SAN FRANCISCO !

very very excited for this show ! come out and support and let’s prove that experimental music events do make money.

Overlap.org and Volume present - LISTEN/VISION 06
Sunday 10 May 2009 at Cafe Du Nord - 7pm

Featuring :
Christopher Willits
Taylor Deupree
Classical Revolution
$10, 21+
Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm.

Sponsoring Organizations :
XLR8R, Friends of the Urban Forest, Volume, Overlap.org

more info:
Overlap.org Event Post

DJ SET at SWISSNIX - APRIL 24 + CAFE DU NORD - MAY 10th

I’m playing a DJ set at a very cool event friday night April 24th.
this is a Swissnex event featuring a new robot, QB1, created by Engineer Frédéric Kaplan and designer Martino d’Esposito. Their work with intelligent machines has also been shown at The New York Museum of Modern Art.

Overlap, the experimental community building organization I founded and direct, was invited to collaborate with Swissnex and QB1 to create sound design for the event. Louis Rawlins and I (the Overlap Max/MSP/Jitter freaks) have created a generative audio system that uses midi files submitted by Overlap.org users. + I’ll be DJ’ing some slow moving tunes at the beginning and end of the night.

a lot more info here :
Overlap.org Event Post

+ My next San Francisco performance is going to be May 10th 2009 at Cafe Du Nord. This is another Overlap event featuring Taylor Deupree (12k), Classical Revolution, and I.
Sponsors include XLR8R and Friends of the Urban Forest. !

BACK IN SF THIS WEEK

just got home from santa fe and boulder. had an amazing time and met some amazing people. so many thanks to kate and the communikey crew, d numbers for being such great hosts in santa fe, and forest who is such an awesome friend.

i really like this style of touring the US.. gone a few days a week play a show or two, maybe lead a workshop.. come back to SF and work on things before doing it again. it’s the best of both worlds, where i’m able to connect with people in other parts of the country and still able to guide a bunch of SF and studio-based projects that are evolving right now.

DJ set this friday at Swissnex, and the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival soon after.
all info on my events page.

BOULDER - 4/18/09 - COMMUNIKEY FESTIVAL

santa fe was beautiful and i’m really excited for these events in boulder. !

BOULDER, CO - APRIL 18th 2009
Christopher Willits - audiovisual set - 7:00PM
@ The Old Main Chapel -1600 Pleasant St. Boulder, Co 80302
Communikey Festival 1.0

+ i’ll be leading a workshop / talking about a new writing that first i presented in LA two weeks ago. it’s called “Designing Process” and the focus is centered on structure generating patterns within real-time digital signal processing.
4/18/09 - 11AM - 1909 Broadway, Boulder, Co.

SANTA FE PERFORMANCE - WED 4/15, LIVE ON THE RADIO 4/14th

thanks for the support and good times in providence. machines with magnets has a cool space to play in.

next event it wed the 15th. this will be my first show ever in santa fe.

SANTA FE, NM - APRIL 15th 2009
Christopher Willits - audiovisual set - 8PM
@ The College of Santa Fe - 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe NM. @ The Forum.

on tuesday the 14th i’ll also be playing live on 101.5FM radio - 101.5FM santa fe at 7pm.

PROVIDENCE/PAWTUCKET SHOW TONIGHT !

tonight !

PAWTUCKET (PROVIDENCE), RI. - APRIL 10th 2009
Christopher Willits - audiovisual set
400 main st, pawtucket, RI - 02860
http://www.machineswithmagnets.com

+

tomorrow night APRIL 11th 2009.

Overlap Presents : LISTEN/VISION 05 at Brown University, Providence.
we will be playing exclusive pieces never heard in Providence from : Greg Davis, Roddy Schrock, Jorge Bachman and Willits + Sakamoto.

http://overlap.org/2009/04/listenvision-05-providence-april-11th-2009/

HAPPY AND TWITTERED

the Resonant Forms show at LACE last night was great !
thanks to everyone that came out and to LACE and Volume for setting up some a great event.

i played two long pieces.. one that has been evolving over the last year, and on the next solo album. it’s a looping guitar, polyrhythmic processing and percussion epic. the other piece was a very harmonic and layerd e-bow piece that also incorporates a lot of deep guitar synth bass.
loving these pieces, and feeling like my intentions are vibrating out through them well. i’ll get some live recordings out there for you all soon.

we proved that twitter really is cool yesterday.. i tweeted out 2 guest list spots to my fine twitter followers, and got a reply within 2 mins !
went something like this “show 2nite in LA. 1st person to email me gets 2glist spots !”.
simple enough. much more fun to come.. this is another way for me to give back to all of you wonderful patrons and supporters.

you can follow me on twitter here :
http://twitter.com/willits

(photo by julian vu)

NEXT PERFORMANCE - RESONANT FORMS FESTIVAL - LA

hope to see you LA fine people here !

LOS ANGELES, CA. - RESONANT FORMS - APRIL 4th 2009
Christopher Willits - audiovidual set - 6PM
@ LACE 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
http://www.artleak.org/current.html

lots of upcoming shows. check them here ! :

http://christopherwillits.com/events.html

“WHAT YOU TALKIN’ BOUT, WILLITS?” EPISODE 10 - AUDIOVISUAL ACTION 1

first episode that i’ve done about integrating video ! much more to come.
i’ll be using a similar system at my upcoming shows
- http://christopherwillits.com/events.html

episode 10 permalink : http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/103

share ideas and feedback with me.
http://christopherwillits.com/contact.html

NEW INTERVIEW - THEMILKFACTORY

new interview here :

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2009/03/interview-christopher-willits/

after the nyc show at the stone, david abravanel interviewed me about the new Flossin release, new music evolution, technology and Overlap.org .

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/

SXSW PERFORMANCE - MARCH 18, 2009

this will be a great showcase.
i’m playing at 7:30PM !

AUSTIN, TX - SXSW - MARCH 18th 2009
Ghostly / Anticon Showcase
Christopher Willits - audiovisual pattern set - 7:30PM
+ Jel, Restiform Bodies, Anathallo, Dosh, Yoni Wolf (of WHY?), The Chap, Themselves.
@ The Mowhak - 912 River St. Austin TX

more upcoming US dates here : events

+ i’m playing a party on saturday night in oakland.
follow me on twitter and i’ll send the location on saturday (!) : http://twitter.com/willits

OVERLAP.ORG SALON TONIGHT !

we’ll be gathering at this Overlap.org event to talk and collaborate on max/msp/jitter and ableton live. come out and meet up.

http://overlap.org/2009/03/overlap-salon-04-maxmspjitter-march-11-2009/

+ we’re now the official ableton live user group of san francisco. so come learn some things and help spread the word about Overlap.org