Immersive ambient composer, guitarist, and producer. Co-founder & Director of Envelop. https://christopherwillits.com

Christopher Willits is an artist, musician, and guitarist who creates immersive ambient music. As one of the core artists on the Ghostly International label roster since the early 2000s, Willits has continually evolved his craft, producing one of the most diverse and prolific catalogs within contemporary ambient music. Releases span introspective solo albums, widescreen audiovisuals, and unbridled collaborations. His process is an expression of love, inspired by an international audience of listeners, and the conviction that music can catalyze personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Willits began his career with 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 made his Ghostly International full-length debut with 2006 landmark Surf Boundaries. He’d expand his vision next through collaboration, working with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2008’s Ocean Fire and 2012’s Ancient Future), Zach Hill of Death Grips, Taylor Deupree, and, for 2014 LP Opening, with the whole band of Tycho. He also lent a hand in mastering the latter’s album Awake, composed the original score for documentary The Art of Listening, and continues to lead music production and meditation classes in San Francisco.

In 2017, Willits put forth Horizon, the first ever spatial audio release on Ghostly International. The album’s innovative 3D mix is mapped to surround listeners and align with sleep patterns, meditation, and other mindful practices. Willits is also the director and co-founder of the nonprofit, Envelop; leading a mission to amplify the connective power of music through immersive audio venues and spatial audio production tools. Like Horizon, his 2019 album Sunset utilizes Envelop’s cutting-edge technology to encourage listening from within. The five compositions move from warm to cool designed as a soundtrack to embrace the day's end; a collective letting go. Another skyward, pioneering project from an artist who occupies a unique corner of the electronic music universe.

Night Signals formed in Perth, Western Australia, in early 2013 when four friends with some musical background (Soviet Valves, Bamodi, Smrts, Ducks on a String) got together and started creating energetic and melodic modern rock music. When a newcomer Skye Groenveld joined mid-2013, she complimented the band with her vocal melodies and lyrics of desperation, anxiety, hope and survival. 
Immediately Night Signals clicked together and only a couple of rehearsals later several songs were completed, with all five members contributing to the process of writing and arranging music. By November the band had played their first gig (with The Gooch Palms on their debut Perth show) and recorded a 5-track demo with Matt Bairstow (Smrts, Usurper of Modern Medicine, Injured Ninja). 
Night Signals’ thread a thin line between melancholic and uplifting moods in their songs by carefully balancing often haunting melodies with good dose of volume and upbeat tempo. This demo bring five songs of longing, putting your heart on a plate, putting your lover on a plate and a fatal relationship with a Siamese twin.
In October 2014 Night Signals recorded their debut EP with Will Hooper on a reel-to-reel tape machine. It was mastered by Jon Murphy and is available as CDEP - check out our bandcamp page.

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