Christopher Willits processes guitar notes through a series of self-written Max/MSP plug-ins, garbling the guitar’s natural sounds into a series of clicks and hums. It sounds like an auditorium full of crickets underwater, but is sublimely rhythmic, and the cascading melody of his textured guitar clicks can express much more than you would expect. His playing on self-released CD-R “:plateaus, centers, stoma” sounds extremely personal on untitled track #2, which drifts on spare guitar notes and airy background drones with the rhythm of a slow dance.
Christopher Willits - Untitled
On his debut for Ghostly International “Surf Boundaries” in 2006, he brought a full band sound to support his signature style, and dreamy vocals to drift in and out of the mix, and on stand-out track “Medium Blue” the drums accentuate the rhythm that was hinted at in the empty space of his earlier recordings while leaving room for his clicking guitar to be felt.
Yay, finally a new blog!
Wow this is really incredible stuff.
Much thanks errandboy!
Oh damn, I was expecting ambient music when I read that description. When I wear headphones and listen to Untitled, it sounds like someone is massaging my brain.
By that I meant that I was not excited about this, because ambient music generally doesn’t gel with my ADHD brain, but then I listened and it was AMAZING.