Christopher Willits is an artist; composer, guitarist, producer, visual artist, and co-founder & director of Envelop, a nonprofit with a mission to inspire and connect through immersive listening. As one of the core artists on the Ghostly International label since the early 2000s, Willits has navigated the field of contemporary ambient music with curiosity and ambition, realizing an acclaimed body of work that includes two albums with Japanese legend Ryuichi Sakamoto, collaborations with Taylor Deupree, Zach Hill, and his close friends, Tycho. This driven yet gentle devotion to deep listening led him to the forefront of spatial audio production, a nascent technology at the time of his 2017 album Horizon. Willits operates with the conviction that music can create physical and emotional space for us to slow down and feel the present moment, which is the central intention of his latest album Gravity, his most personal and refined to date. Willits composed Gravity during a period of profound change and challenge, processing the impending flux of the world while supporting his mother during her declining health. His natural response was to create music that soothes and facilitates a state of relaxation and clarity. There's a wave-like cadence and flow across the collection; a sense of stability afforded by gravity or the lack thereof, as much a resource as it is an expression. *Additional info about Envelop can be found at: envelop.us