FOCUS: Sound Artist Christopher Willits
by Zoe Banks, BAVC Training Advisor
Since 2001, Christopher Willits has taught audio classes including Pro Tools, Ableton Live and Max/MSP/Jitter, at BAVC. He has toured internationally with his ground-breaking, genre-defying solo releases and critically-acclaimed collaborations . His most recent collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, titled “Ocean Fire”, releases this week on 12K. In the first installment of the new BAVC Interview Series FOCUS, training advisor Zoe Banks sits down with Mr. Willits on a rainy Friday to discuss BAVC, Barack, Bernal, and the moons of Jupiter.
Tell me about BAVC…
BAVC’s amazing. If you look at the way the audio department’s evolved in the last 7 years it’s amazing. When I first started working at BAVC in the beginning of 2001 I was a grad student at Mills and Sharon Cheslow (former member of Chalk Circle, first DC all girls punk band) was teaching and invited me to come help out at an experimental sound class, a pilot class, or demonstration. I don’t really remember the specifics. But after that the education coordinator, Chris Gee invited me to come in and do an Intro to Digital Audio class and I was like “hell yeah”.
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