Christopher Willits
Artist Musician at Goucher College
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Willits is an immersive music artist, guitarist, and co-founder of Envelop, building spatial audio experiences and open-source tools that surround listeners with 32-speaker soundscapes. With a decades-long career on the Ghostly International roster, he has produced a diverse catalog spanning introspective solo albums, widescreen audiovisuals, and collaborative projects that foreground presence and transformation. Based in San Francisco, he pairs creative practice with education—teaching graduate and undergraduate courses and developing long-running sound-design curricula across multiple institutions. As director of Envelop he translates artistic vision into scalable live listening environments and community-focused events. His work is guided by an artist’s manifesto of music-as-medicine, and he intentionally cultivates practices of letting go so his compositions can catalyze personal and social change. An MFA-trained multidisciplinary practitioner, he blends technical spatial audio knowledge with a long history of teaching and production that few recording artists sustain.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Art, BFA, Art at The Kansas City Art InstituteMFA, Music and Art, MFA, Music and Art at Mills College
Github Skills (5)
spatial-audio10
ableton-live10
panning9
threejs8
envelop1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
EnvelopSound/EnvelopForLive
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Free, open-source tools for Ambisonic 3D panning within Max for Live 10+
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
ableton-livethreejsspatial-audiomaxforlivepanning
EnvelopSound/EnvelopLX
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Interactive LED lighting control for Envelop
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
ledlightinglighting-controlenvelop
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