Willits, Christopher
Opening
"For years, I've imagined the work I do in music, photography, and video all coming into one space," says music-tech
guru Christopher Willits from his home in San Francisco, "I believe that art has an ability to awaken our connection to
everything." And that is exactly what he has set out to do with OPENING, the veteran Ghostly artist's immersive new
audio-visual project.
After building a library of footage and images from his travels around California, Hawaii, Japan, and Thailand, Willits
will unveil for the first time a portion of his videos as an abstract film, the seven scenes of which each correspond
with a song and photo from the album. The 45-minute piece uses music and a first-person perspective to tell what Willits
calls "a very ambiguous story," much in the vein of ground-breaking experimental films Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka. Taken
as a whole, OPENING is unlike anything Willits has accomplished before, and maybe that's because the audio-visual
project is about expanding one's mind to become something new. Or, as Willits puts it, "OPENING is about transformation,
the experience of changing oneself to be more of who you know you can be, and, ultimately, the joy that comes with that
change."
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
02-09-2014
Label
Item-nr
944152
EAN
0804297822020
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
VISION
2
CLEAR
3
GROUND
4
NOW
5
CONNECT
6
WIDE
7
RELEASE