Envelop Stream |Christopher Willits - The Unknown Sea + Live Selected Works
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Envelop Stream’s first event is a soothing deep listen with composer and electronic musician/guitarist Christopher Willits. Setting the space with a new piece, “The Unknown Ocean”, Willits will lead us through a journey of sound that includes some of his favorite pieces and new live improvisations.
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 including two albums with Ryuichi Sakamoto and productions with Tycho. 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. His process is an expression of love, inspired by an international audience of listeners, and the conviction that music can catalyze personal transformation.
Envelop Stream is an online listening space that shares live-streamed spatial audio events. Reflecting Envelop’s physical immersive audio venues, it hosts live performances, album listenings, and workshops that unite and inspire. Using Envelop’s spatial audio technology with standard headphones, Envelop Stream creates a three-dimensional experience of sound that transcends any location. Envelop members receive all of Envelop Stream’s regular programming, and their community support allows the nonprofit to also host occasional pay-what-you-want live-streamed events to a broader international community of listeners.
Envelop’s mission is to unite humanity through profound communal listening experiences. We achieve our mission through community-supported immersive listening spaces, inspiring events, educational workshops, and free spatial audio software tools.
Our immersive audio venues provide a space to deeply listen together. We host events ranging from live performances and listening events, to wellness experiences and immersive audio education featuring Envelop for Live our open-source spatial audio production toolkit. With listening spaces in San Francisco, and Salt Lake City, a Pop-up space that can go anywhere, and an online listening portal, Envelop strives to share the social and emotional benefits of immersive listening with diverse communities. Envelop leads the future of immersive listening, bringing us back to our ancestral connection to sound, and enjoying the benefits of listening together.