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AMBIENT

June 2017

Taken from 'Horizon' by Christopher Willits, out May 19, 2017.

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Christopher Willts - Horizon

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As co-founder of spatial audio platform Envelop, pioneering producer and electronic musician Christopher Willits navigates the new universe of three dimensional music composition. The technology positions sound around the listener—full spatial orientation—whether inside an Envelop space or at home with ordinary headphones. A logical step for an artist whose output, spanning over 25 releases, has inched increasingly towards rich, immersive audiovisual experiences. His new project, Horizon, culminates a career-long journey for space, physicality, and serenity in music. Fitting, a decade after Willits marked Ghostly International’s first ever exclusively digital full-length, that he brings the label its first spatial audio album.

Willits began to share his diverse vision of ambient music in the early 2000s, releasing a string of critically acclaimed albums on the 12k label. The minimal sound introduced on those recordings remains at the core of his work: warm guitar tones woven into smooth, harmonic surfaces. Willits would expand the spectrum of his catalog next through collaboration, working with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Zach Hill (Death Grips), Taylor Deupree, and, for 2014 LP Opening, the whole band of Tycho.

In the period since Opening, Willits and friends successfully crowdfunded Envelop, allowing further development of its open source software, which integrates with production tools like Ableton Live as well as virtual reality platforms, and its 3D sound space locations for performance, research, workshops, and other non-profit projects. He also composed the original score for documentary The Art of Listening, and continues to lead music production and meditation classes in San Francisco.

Both Willits’ teachings and his mission with Envelop inform the deep ambient terrain of Horizon. Spanning one hour and thirty minutes, the album surrenders to the sentient fabric of time and space, and by design, aligns with sleep patterns, meditation, and other mindful practices. This is slow music, mapped to surround listeners whether in states heightened or muted. Space, literally and figuratively, to reflect in.

The innovative 3D mix is evident within the first sweeping, spherical pan of “Comet” (access to Envelop’s software or spaces not required). As one orbits, on occasion the panoramic view touches down to the surface by way of ambisonic field recordings, like the Peruvian Amazon at night on “Return” and the Hawaiian ocean waves of “Waipio.”

This weightless motion—shifting between gaseous and textural, macro and micro—offers a unique and transcendent proprioceptive experience. Listeners are ushered through atmospheres with indeterminate length, breadth and depth. It is as if we are at once above, below, within, and alongside the skylines of sound.

Horizon is best experienced on: 
1. Normal headphones
2. Within an Envelop listening space
3. A DIY Ambisonic system (minimum of 4 speakers)
 
Download of the Horizon soundfield (16ch 3H3D encoded files) are available when you purchase Horizon from The Ghostly Store. Instructions for listening and setting up your own listening space can be found here in the Horizon Listening Guide.

Liner Notes
Christopher Willits – Processed Moog guitar on all tracks, Jupiter-8 V on track 02, Monark on track 07.

Composed, engineered, mixed, and mastered with digital and analog tools by Christopher Willits Spatial composition and mix created with Envelop for Live.

Ambisonic field recordings by Christopher Willits.
Additional stereo recordings in “Waipio” by Ryan Kleeman.

Audio production consultation by Scott Hansen, Ryan Kleeman and Alingo Loh.
All pieces recorded live in The Dojo in San Francisco, California and Overlap Studio in Oakland, California.

Cover art photo of Earth edited by Christopher Willits with consultation from Alingo Loh and Scott Hansen. Public domain photo credit: NASA.

Horizon - Christopher Willits

"Kiyoko" is the end titles track for "AKIRA PROJECT" 

AKIRA PROJECT on youtube : 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1GO-93Nt3c&feature=youtu.be

Free Download

Kiyoko

Cyber Dreams (Superstrings)

Nereo

Digital / 12" - stratus-music.bandcamp.com/album/axis-ep

Piccadilly Records - www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/Stratus…-104012.html

Juno - www.juno.co.uk/products/stratus-axis-ep/578206-01/

Pacific Beach Vinyl - www.pbvinyl.com/products/stratus-axis-ep

Axis

Part of the Neverland Clan, Ryan Hawaii and Omelet branch out into their own weird and wonderful world of self purported "Spit in your face music". Beginning with eerily ethereal instrumental Press Start, the EP soon descends into an even darker world of existential analysis and "Dirty, young and honest" sounds. "It's the perfect representation of the London youth mindset but from an 'outcast's' perspective," says Hawaii. "I want the listener to feel as though they're on a journey when they listen to the tape", says 20-year old. Press play and join the revolution...

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Upgrade Me

Fuck Your Club

Knightrider Feat Mumblez Black Ink

Pokemon Emulator

Old track we did in 2008. inspired by one of our favorite movies, "THEY LIVE". RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper <3

Like Perfume on a Pig

"Nightmare Isn't Over" (Halloween II Rework by Le Matos)

Rework of one of the best soundtrack of all time Halloween II. Original track by the master of horror, John Carpenter & Alan Howarth!

Artwork by Sam Lee Turner

video : https://youtu.be/ZZpPvl0doVQ
Editing by Olaf Svenson www.lesenfantsterribles.tv

rent or buy this amazing movie in VOD !!!
Itune : itunes.apple.com/us/movie/halloween-ii/id394335318
Amazone : https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-II-Jamie-Lee-Curtis/dp/B0044WUJQ0?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Universal : http://www.universalvod.net/movies/326-halloween-ii/

Buy the soundtrack !!!
Itune : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/halloween-ii-expanded-original/id333906176
Death Waltz Recordings : http://mondotees.com/products/halloween-ii-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-lp?variant=1084892911

Happy Halloween.

Nightmare Isn't Over (Halloween II Rework By Le Matos)

So it turns out I only went and wrote and recorded an album on my recent visit to California (I was there for much more important non-musical reasons).
The place and the company are very inspiring. 

The album, entitled The Village, will be released on double CD and download in December. Until then, you'll have to make do with this part of this track and the ridiculous photograph I actually took of the actual sunset. We don't get sunsets quite like that in Manchester!

Jigsaw Pieces

This is the main title theme of "EXODE" a web series for TV5 directed by Jesse Malcolm Sweet (part Les Enfants Terribles film crew). The full soundtrack was composed by Le Matos and will be available late 2016.

About "EXODE" :
David, a celestial cartographer, suddenly awakens from hypostasis when his emergency escape pod is ejected from its long-range mothership, the ASCE-Atlas. Trapped in a space the size of a coffin, he will have to survive in the vacuum that surrounds him. With the help of LEO, an artificial intelligence, David must try to reconnect with his relatives still trapped aboard the Atlas and save them from imminent death.

Online march 7th on http://tv5.ca/exode 
Watch it in theater for one day only at La Cinémathèque québécoise march 8th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1557346714592417/

Exode - Main Title Theme

Buried deep beneath the castle was their only way out of the maze. Outside they could hear the tropical birds of the wilderness calling them, but they had yet to determine a way to break free to the jungle. The escape hatch would provide their only means of access to the greenery of the forest floor and the place of paradise. 

Seahawks are pretty freakin' balearic. I mean, their name is balearic, they sound balearic and the music they make is sure as hell balearic. Lush, peaceful and warm, their new release on Ocean Moon leaves us longing for sunnier climates.

Escape Hatch

PREMIERE: Seahawks - Escape Hatch [Ocean Moon]

Last Days - Whitecaps

Taken from 'Horizon' by Christopher Willits, out May 19, 2017.

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Horizon

Christopher Willits - Comet

Christopher Willits - Simplicity

Christopher Willts - Two

Christopher Willts - Waipio

Christopher Willts - Rotation

Christopher Willts - Light and Dark

Christopher Willts - Rising

Christopher Willts - Return

Unreleased demo track from Headpocket

@headpocket
https://www.mixcloud.com/headpocket/

Buy now https://dreamchimney.bandcamp.com/releases

DC Demo Tracks #6: Headpocket "Wobbly Tin Reborn"

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Cold Fold

Burial - In McDonalds (Coust Remix)

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Christopher Willts - Return

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