Flossin's latest offering "White Anaconda and the Rainbow Boa" is an unbridled creative explosion of electronic, rock, jazz, noise featuring Christopher Willits, Zach Hill, Matmos, Nate Boyce and Carson McWhirter. Recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA. during a two day session, this improvisational album reveals a limitless bombast of sound that might possibly vibrate your mind into a relaxed jelly state. There is so much going on sonically that it has the effect of an overwhelming yet calm wash. Snakes in this context represent spiral light energy, the vibrations that comprise all things. This sound vibrates you intensely.

Flossin is a noise, jazz, electronic, rock, free improv group from the San Francisco Bay Area. "White Anaconda & The Rainbow Boa" is Flossin's 3rd release, 2nd full-length album. Christopher Willits and Zach Hill (Hella) met in 2004 and quickly began creating with old friend Miguel Depedro aka Kid 606. Their first release, "Lead Singer" was released in 2004 on Ache Records and Licensed by Yacca in Japan. "Serpents", released in 2009 by Overlap, featured the Flossin core of Willits and Hill along with the current lineup of Matmos, Boyce, McWhiter. Flossin's mission is to push boundaries of electronics, jazz and rock in a band format, creating weird and unique mind-expanding improvisations while simply having fun doing so.

Flossin on FaceBook

Very happy to announce and new release by Christopher Willits. This is the Overlap founder's first proper solo release for Overlap.

GOLD - Download here and pay what you want.

GOLD is a 24 minute and 17 second sound bath. This sound was created with the intention of affinity, love. Listen and relax.

In Christopher's words -

"This is the deepest and also the simplest piece I have created. All harmonics of two notes with very low waves of bass. It's all about being present, in affinity and in love with you, and all that surrounds you. I created this piece to relax with, to meditate with, my intention is to create a bath of sound and light.

At the time of this release the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow. Calm, powerful, and nonviolent resistance is so important in order to galvanize greater support and spread the information about why our economic system needs to change, why green energy needs to happen on a mass scale. For me, GOLD creates a peaceful and powerful space to charge up with- surrendering to, and validating the knowingness that we are all made of love and light, and that we can create the world we want. The transformation of the world begins with each one of us transforming ourselves. Harmonic vibrations can aid us in our own transformative process- massaging, cleaning, enveloping, reminding us that we are all made of energy."

We collaborated with Public Works on Sunday October 2. It was a pleasure to host such a enriching group of people and talent. We are excited to host another event with Public Works mid to late January. More details to come.

We are very happy to announce Overlap's first collaboration with Public Works in San Francisco! Community + creativity coming together through MUSIC, FILMS, ART, and FOOD.
Advance tickets are available for $7 here, $10 at the door, the night of the event.

Pubic Works + Overlap.org present :

PUBLIC / OVERLAP - Sunday October 2, 2011 - 7-12pm

Music + Films + Art + Local Food

7pm- Community Conversation about Permaculture with David Cody
8pm- DJ Centipede - Mophono
9pm - Christopher Willits - audiovisual performance
10pm- Gamelan Gender Wayang (balinese gamelan ensemble)
Short Films by the San Francisco Cinematheque - between sets
Local Food vendors - all night
Drinks - all night
Local Art Vendors - all night
at Public Works

Facebook Event Page

We had a great time at the 1st ever Max For Live Hack Night at GAFFTA in San Francisco. Many new friends were made and so much was learned together !

People connected and shared knowledge, imagination, fun. Presentations by Neal Riley and James Westfall highlighted the creative freedom you gain when you create your own tools like this.
Community + creativity is what it's all about.

We hope to take this event to other cities in the world. Contact us if you are interested in setting something up. Feel free to adapt any of these devices and please share on twitter using the tag #M4LHackNight .

Here are the devices that were created during the event.

A few photos by Tomo Saito -

Mission Creek Oakland Music and Arts Festival is seeking submissions for their Film Night !

What have you been working on?

Shorts on any topic are encouraged, any genre. Films featuring local music are even more encouraged !
15 mins max, deadline September 1. Please submit links to your work to kiernan.gatewood@gmail.com

More info at www.facebook.com/missioncreekoak

Overlap, GAFFTA, and Ableton present

Max for Live Hack Night
Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Time: 7pm - 11pm
Cost: $5-20 suggested donation
Location: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts - 998 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102
Materials: Bring your laptop with Max for Live installed.

Max For Live allows you to design your own tools for music and multimedia production, and the Max for Live Hack Night brings users together in one place to create and learn from each other. With the intention of developing a community around sharing and creating new custom-made devices and ideas, The Max for Live Hack Night is for anyone interested in building their own instruments, interfaces, or performance systems.
 
The evening begins with preeminent Max designers giving short presentations of their work, and sharing their patches to learn from. After a break with music, performance demos, and drinks, the night shifts into "hack mode" where attendees will be grouped into teams to collaborate and share ideas. At the end of the evening, each team will share their devices providing everyone with new tools and ideas to take home and use. Both new and experienced users are encouraged to come, and make sure to bring your laptop.

The Max for Live Hack Night was created by Christopher Willits (http://christopherwillits.com) and Overlap (http://overlap.org) with the help of Cullen Miller (http://cuneimedia.com) and GAFFTA (http://gaffta.org).

Presentations -
Max For Live pros Neal Riley (http://www.themetakids.com) and James Westfall (http://aumhaa.blogspot.com).

Overlap, Littlefield, and Ableton are teaming up to present a mini-festival in NYC - FIELD DAY.

Workshop and performance by Christopher Willits, along with music by other great artists- Alexander Turnquist, Loren Dent, Noveller, and Jozef Van Wissem.

11:30AM - doors open.
12:00PM - "Process" - Signal processing + Max For Live workshop w/ Christopher Willits.
1:00PM - Alexander Turnquist.
1:40PM - Loren Dent.
2:15PM - Noveller.
3:00PM - Christopher Willits - live performance.
4:00PM - Jozef Van Wissem.

Tickets and more info here - http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/56249/

Midori's new release on Overlap intertwines pulsing melodic chords, thick textures and bass, into thunderous yet delicate forms.

DOWNLOAD + LISTEN (Highest Quality FLAC + MP3)

Midori Hirano is a musician, composer, sound artist and producer, born in Kyoto Japan, now based in Berlin Germany. Her productions are based around traditional instrumentation - piano, strings, voice - augmented with subtle electronic processing and samples. The result is a rich, warm and melodic, rolling sound.

She has released two albums "LushRush"and "klo:yuri" from Noble / Midi Creative in Japan, in addition to "RundSkipper" under the name of MimiCof - her another moniker - from PROGRESSIVE FOrM, released earlier this month.

Through The Water by wkc

WKC will be on tour in August and September. You can reach him through his Sound Cloud page.

We are very happy to announce the newest addition to our catalog- a psychedelic journey of time/space, where sound art meets music.

SUBCONSCIOUS ATTRACTION STRATEGIES - BOYCE + MATMOS + WILLITS

DOWNLOAD + STREAM (Highest Quality FLAC + MP3)

Track 3 is a free download .

PRESS RELEASE

Before Drew and Martin of Matmos left San Francisco they collaborated with long-time friends Christopher Willits and Nate Boyce. This session marked Matmos’ migration from the pioneering electronic music scene in San Francisco.

They worked in an expectation-less collaboration, creating something uniquely different from the last time they recorded together--"[Serpents](http://shop.overlap.org/album/flossin-serpents-ep)" by Flossin (Boyce, Matmos, Zach Hill, WIllits, Carson Mcwhirter), also released by Overlap. “Subconscious Attraction Strategies” is both sound art and music--light and dark hues fusing into one mind-expanding journey.

Mixed and Mastered by Willits and released exclusively by Overlap.

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A new collaboration with Willits, Matmos and Nate Boyce will be released April 26th, 2011  

XLR8R magazine shares the news here

"Before departing for the complete opposite coast of the continental United States, the formerly San Francisco-based duo Matmos (pictured above) had joined forces with SF's resident blissful guitar manipulator Christopher Willits and local videographer/musician Nate Boyce for an "expectation-less" collaboration..."

Cover art below by Boyce and Willits.

Wonderful research and innovation here. Simply amazing!

http://www.ted.com/talk/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html

Our friend Yuka Ezoe (and vendor at our last Overlap event) has a show up now at Kokoro Studio in San Francisco, fillied with these amazing posters. Check it out.

You can buy prints online here at Little Paper Planes.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Saturday ! It was a very awesome event with stellar performances from Stefanie Ku and Christopher Willits, an enlightening conversation about permaculture lead by David Stockhausen and Chris Burley, delicious food by Leif Hedendal , beautiful arts and crafts by Yuka Ezoe and Monica Squierteri , and two films (Lay Claim to an Island - Chris Kennedy and Portrait #2 Trojan - Vanessa Renwick) curated by the SF Cinematheque ! More events to come in 2011 - become a member of Overlap to get the news first.

Check out some photos below by artist, musician, designer and photographer Tomo Saito.

Christopher Willits - Live guitar + custom processing. Performing the piece "GOLD"

Stefanie Ku - Beautiful and mysterious soundscapes

Leif Hedendal - Delicious hand pies full of local goodness !

David Stockhausen and Chris Burley - Community Conversation about permaculture

Yuka Ezoe - Gives some lucky person the finger

Dear Overlappers,

Stop.

Today I make a formal re-introduction of the Overlap.org blog on the newly re-constructed site. The above photography is one of my own, from a forthcoming series of photos about the time I took a magical surrealist journey across the United States. 120 medium format, no editing in post. I am anti photo-editing. Who is anti photo-editing? Miguel Sabogal is anti photo-editing. I am he who will be writing to you in these margins once every week. That is not to say I regard my writing as marginal; I am just following the constricts of this space. 

Christopher (Willits) and I started speaking nearly half a year ago about my involvement with the curation of image content on this blog.  This in large part is interesting due to my strong anti-technology stance. I shoot on motion picture film stock and am a medium format camera enthusiast. That I've received a complete green light from the Overlap crew to show my work in film and photography to the community is incredible. However, I'd have very narrow vision if I didn't inform the community about the work of other living artists that I find interesting. Living is the key word here. Live now or die forever. I will note that I've never quite been a historian.

As I close this opening statement I'd like to note that Overlap.org is a community space. If you shoot analog photography or motion picture film and feel strongly about your work please email me. A four sentence synopsis of who you are and a link to your work will suffice. What is the email address?

Demos (at) overlap.org

-Miguel

Overlap events feature a diverse offering of artists, musicians, chefs, community organizers, and creative thinkers. The next event is Feb 26th 2011 at Twin Space. 6pm doors, 7pm event begins.

TICKETS -
$7 pre-sale - $10 at the door - $5 for Overlap Members w/ discount code - Join here !
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153988

The events will run from 6-11pm at Twin Space - 2111 Mission St. at 17th st. 3rd Fl. Suite 300. SF CA.

6pm - doors open

7pm - Community Conversation about Permaculture
w/ David Stockhausen

8pm - Local Sustainable Food by Leif Hedendal

9pm - Stefanie L. Ku

9:45 - Short film - Curated by The SF Cinematheque

10:15pm - Live Performance by Christopher Willits

11pm - DJ sets. David8, 7thson

RSVP at the Facebook Event Page

Help spread the word to your friends. Contact us if you would like to be involved or volunteer at an event for free admission - email info (at) overlap.org .