Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. Willits is "a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area" and "a pioneer and a teacher, exploring new methodologies for signal processing.". He has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in the digital age. Through diverse projects his focus has remained on guitar and computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; melodic rhythms, grainy textures, and smooth undulating ambient layers. His music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are meshed into one. Pitchfork states that Willits "paints with his guitar". Willits is "a purveyor of both beauty and experimentation, a video director and a musician, a composer and performer, an artist and organizer, bringing together different scenes (through the platform Overlap.org).". He has created a brand of "incredibly intelligent compositions that manages to be hard to pinpoint into a genre".
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