Amazing experience! Thanks to everyone that came out and enjoyed LISTEN with us.
We went deep together. The power of sound is remarkable.
We'll share ideas and dates for future LISTEN events soon.

Information about the LISTEN series is here.

LISTEN - STANFORD UNIVERSITY / CCRMA - MAY 4, 2012 - 7:30PM doors, 8-10PM - FREE

LISTEN is a unique Overlap event exploring the art of sound and perception. It is a place and time for a shared experience of vibration, space and listening. Overlap has commissioned unreleased sound compositions from an international pool of sound artists and musicians. These exclusive pieces, not to be found anywhere on the web or a CD or vinyl, are presented in a comfortable listening environment that allows the listener to soak into the sound. Past work has included pieces by Carl Stone, Frank Bretschneider, Taylor Deupree, Kenneth Kirschner, Strategy, Kenric Mcdowell, Sebastien Roux, Christopher Willits, Richard Chartier, The Water, Greg Davis, Sawako, Gregg Kowalsky, Keiichi Sugimoto, and Willits + Sakamoto.

In this event, LISTEN comes to Stanford University, CCRMA. The event will occupy two spaces in CCRMA both with multichannel playback systems, including The Listening Room. The audience will be laying down or sitting on the floor so please bring pillows and/or blankets to be as comfortable as you can.
The event is free. Limited attendance, please come early to reserve a space.
Directions here. Be prepared to go deep.
+ Thanks to Stanford / CCRMA and Chris Carlson for co-producing this event with us.

Program:
Richard Chartier - "(pre)incidence" - 17:36
Gregg Kowalsky - “Rosebud for Red Magus” - 18:17 mins.
Sebastien Roux - "Les Vagues" - 15:30
(Intermission)
Sawako - “untitled” - 15:18 mins
Greg Davis - “Interbeing” - 21:07 mins

RSVP HERE - Facebook Event Page

We are happy to share a wonderful collection of remixed Christopher Willits music by both new and accomplished artists. "Tiger Flower Circle Sun - Remixes" is the result of a public remix project initiated by Willits with the help of SoundCloud, Ableton, Creative Commons and Ghostly International.
All of the recordings used to create the album "Tiger Flower Circle Sun" were freely shared by Willits, with the encouragement to "have fun and create what you love with these sounds". Project page here.

Download Here.

You can find more about this really interesting community project on Willits' site.

Featuring - Robert Lippok, Simon Scott, The Sight Below, Corey Fuller (ILLUHA), Big Phone, Radere, Natasha Kmeto, Chris McNamara, MimiCof, Rickmond Wong, Filfla, Pinkcourtesyphone (Richard Chartier), Roma 79, Kodacrome, Christina Vantzou, John Hudak, Celer, V4W.Enko, Davic Noc, Go Dugong, Leonardo Rosado, Ersha, Beat Rossmy, Szymon Kaliski, White Palms, .mute, Sun Glitters, Tom Fitzpatrick, Pearson Constantino, Cue., M-Pill, Ted Apel, Andy Cowling, Cass, Ice Frosty, Alpharay, Josh Mason, Axel Thesleff, c.z , Spies On Bikes, Trans Alp, nankotsuteacher, Sun Hammer, The Maidu, Trans Alp, nankotsuteacher, Matt Diamond, Lamont Kohner.

On April 3rd Overlap will be releasing a compilation album of remixes created from the sounds of Christopher Willits' album "Tiger Flower Circle Sun". 121 recordings that created the music were publicly shared with artists an producers around the world to remix and create with. Overlap's favorite remixes are going to be gathered into an album, a creative community experiment in co-creating and collaborating together.

April 3 is also the date that Willits and Ghostly's favorite remixes will be awarded prizes from Ableton, Soundcloud, Ghostly.

Posted on Willits' site today -

The "Tiger Flower Circle Sun" Remix Project went really great! It has been so fun to collaborate with all of you like this! I'm still going through all of the submissions, making my final selections of the best of the best.

It's definitely tough to pick a "favorite", I'm trying not to think about it, trust the heart, intuition. Some of these pieces feel like a fluid communication / collaboration of the original intention of the music. Other remixes take the music to places that I would never go myself, which is also cool.

Finishing some other mixes right now (more updates on that soon), and when needing a break i'm giving each remix time to soak in. Really great work everyone.
There is a lot that we can grow and build from this project, this process of sharing sounds and essentially creating together. Thank you for sharing your creativity!
More soon.

March 1, 2012 is the next installment of Public Works' collaboration with Overlap.org.

OVERLAP is a place and time to join our diverse interests in beautiful music, food, film and art, and celebrate the vibrant micro-communities that make this city amazing. We are growing creative community. SFBG interviewed Overlap founder Christopher Willits about the event here.

The evening begins at 7pm with a unique workshop on the creative process from accomplished San Francisco musician and artist Christopher Willits, followed by a surprise film screening, live performances from Mophono (one of the main leaders in the SF beat scene, both as a producer and organizer of events) and Danny Paul Grody's beautiful guitar work (Danny's band The Drift recently went on tour with Explosions in the Sky and have a new album out). Throughout the night local organic food will be served, Slayer's Club Dj's will be sharing their impeccable taste of music, and SF art and craft vendors will be sharing their latest work for purchase.

7pm - Workshop -
Christopher Willits (Ghostly Inernational / Overlap.org)
"Designing Process - The Creative Process in Ableton Live / Max For Live"

8pm - Film Screening - (It's a surprise!)

9pm - Live Performances -
Mophono (DJ Centipede / CB Records/ Soundpieces)
Danny Paul Grody (Root Strata)
Water Borders (Triangle Records) - Dj set

Throughout the night -
Slayers Club Dj's

Food - Freedom Kitchen

Art / Crafts -

Tickets Here - $7 pre-sale/$10 door/$5 Overlap members (discount code sent to overlap mailing list)

RSVP on Facebook here

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."