THANKS TO 2007

Wow. That was a really quick year.. !
Thanks a ton for all of the support this year. Creating and touring and connecting with people feels better all the time. I have lots and lots of joy and sound and happiness to share. I feel like i’m just getting started.

Moving into the next rotation, I feel it’s so important to the world right now for us to rediscover our gifts to this planet and the life around us. There is some crazy stuff going on in the world, and the earth has been absorbing our foolishness for a long time now. At the same time, we have obtained so much information from this planet that is helping us understand healthy patterns of living and eating and creating. As always, we are changing. I believe these changes can be helped along by rediscovering our gifts to the earth and to the people around us. We can all live creatively. We can think positively. We can support solar energy. We can eat food from sustainable sources. We can create art. We can be happy. We don’t need to be working jobs we hate. We don’t need to sacrifice the good of many for our money. We can grow plants. We can dance. We can embody peace. We can donate time and energy to people without homes and food. We can laugh. We can hug each other. We can make music !
I send lots of love to you and those around you.. So many thanks to share.

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here are some of my plans for
2008:

Willits + Sakamoto – Ocean Fire is out in late feb on 12k
http://www.12k.com/1046.html
+ some live shows to be announced very soon.

Currently working on a new record with Ghostly.

Flossin is working out details on a release for late 2008 or early 2009.

New work with Scott Pagano. shows in late jan in upstate NY and NYC.

Solo video work

+ A lot more that we’ll talk about later..

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+ a recap of some of the 2007 happenings over here..

2007 RELEASES :

Christopher Willits – Plants and Hearts (Room40)
http://christopherwillits.com/plants_and_hearts.html

Deupree + Willits – Listening Garden (12k/line)
http://christopherwillits.com/listening_garden.html

Christopher Willits – Surf Boundaries Addendum (Ghostly)
http://www.ghostly.com/1.0/ghostly/gi54.shtml
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=68
feat. remixes by Robert Lippok and The Dead Texan. + video by Scott Pagano, Christina Vantzou and Nobuko Hori.
all content here :
http://www.ghostly.com/christopher_willits-surf_boundaries_addendum.zip

Willits + Sakamoto – Ocean Fire (japan release) (commmons/avex)
http://christopherwillits.com/ocean_fire.html

2007 EVENTS :

A good chunk of the world, tour – Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand.
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=66

WMC sound art panel
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=53

New european booking agent
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=57

OTHER 2007 STUFF :

New online store
http://christopherwillits.com/shop.html

New podcast
http://christopherwillits.com/christopher_willits_podcast.xml

Christopher WIllits (ASCAP) now publishing compositions with OVERLAP MUSIC (ASCAP)
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=63

Creative Commons + Willits “Colors Shifting” remix contest winner Electric West.
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=50

Surf Boundaries Videos :
Some amazing and talented friends donated their time and energy to
creating videos for my LP “Surf Boundaries”. Special thanks to Scott
Pagano, Iris Piers, Christina Vantzou, Chris Larson, Nate Boyce, and
Nobuko Hori. A lot of hard work went into this, and it set a new precedent
for me in terms of video integration into my releases and live shows.
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=62
http://christopherwillits.com/?p=68

OVERLAP.ORG

We curated and directed 6 overlap releases and 4 live events in the bay area in 2007.
It’s been great working on this project with Jon Philips, Lars Kim and Kenric Mcdowell.
+ We are planning the next year of events and preparing a solid batch of releases in the coming months.
Including the addition of Jinga’s Symbiosis podcast (formerly Symbiosis Radio on RRR in Australia). Great stuff.

Check out the culture that we have emerging here. share your work and ideas.
http://www.overlap.org

thanks again everyone.