Caleb Willitz
calebjosephwillitz@gmail.com
ORIGINAL MUSIC & COMPOSITIONS
Maybe | Composer, Performer, Producer, Mix & Mastering [2020]
● A new EP of my songs featuring Anna Holmquist, Edward Wilkerson, Rami Atassi, Tatsu Aoki, Jim Baker, and Charles Rumback to be released April 23rd, 2020.
● This release of my original music features new experimental tape techniques developed in my Fine Arts Building production space.
Home | Composer, Performer, Producer, Mixing [2017]
● This LP features Tara Smith, Tatsu Aoki, Charles Rumback, Rami Atassi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Greg Ward, Raul Cotaquispe and Edward Wilkerson, and was released to the chicagoIMC.org archive.
● This LP features live-in-studio recordings of my singing and songwriting transformed by an 8-piece band of Chicago free-jazz musicians.
Gaps & Spaces I Co-Producer, Sound Design, Mixing [2014]
● This LP features Greg Ward, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dave Miller, Dominic Johnson, and was released to the chicagoIMC.org archive.
● A sound-art record co-produced by Greg Ward and myself, that equally balances my sound design with Greg’s writing.
MUSIC & SOUND PRODUCTION
Mediumistic Methodology | (Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake) / Recording & Mixing [2022]
● This record is released to Astral Spirits label out of Austin Texas.
Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble II / Recording & Mixing [2022]
● This record is released to Tompkins Square label out of San Francisco.
The Great Black Music Ensemble / Live Sound & Recording Director [2018-present]
● A recorded monthly performance in Theaster Gate’s venue, the Stoney Island Arts Bank, given by a rotating cast of AACM members under the direction of Ernest Khabeer Dawkins.
The Mandorla Awakening (Nicole Mitchell) | Recording [2017]
● This is a recording of a live performance given in the Museum of Contemporary Art by Nicole MItchell, Avery R Young, Kojiro Umezaki, Renée Baker, Tomeka Reid, Alex Wing, Tatsu Aoki, and Jovia Armstrong.
● This recording is released on FPE records, and has recently been placed on Stereogum’s list of top 20 jazz records of that decade.
Liberation Narratives (Haki R. Madhubuti & Nicole Mitchell) | Recording & Mixing [2017]
● This record features Haki R. Madhubuti, Nicole Mitchell, Ugochi, Pharez Whitted, Tomeka Reid, Rene Baker, Miguel de la Cerna, Harrison Bankhead, Tomas Fujiwara, and is released on Third World Press.
SKYLANDING (Yoko Ono & The Miyumi Project) | Chief Sound Consultant & Mastering [2016]
● This record features Tatsu Aoki, Mwata Bowden, Edward Wilkerson, Jamie Kempkers, Coco Elysses, Kioto Aoki, Kiyomi Negi, Noriko Sugiyama, Miyumi Aoki, Dee Alexander, Rami Atassi, Jonathan Chen, and is released on Asian Improv Records.
● As chief sound consultant I coordinated the recording of this project, and relayed all of the aesthetic information to the engineers, as well as mastered the final mix.
Some Jellyfish Live Forever (Jeff Parker & Rob Mazurek) | Recording & Mixing [2015]
● This LP was released on Rogue Arts out of Paris, France in 2015.
Border Anthems (Zeshan Bagewadi) | Recording & Mixing [2014]
● This music video was co-directed by Pak Sar Zameen and Jana Gana Mana.
● Released on the 67th anniversary of the partition, Zeshan B performs a modernized version of both India and Pakistan’s national anthem.
Whirlpool (Caroline Davis) | Recording & Mixing [2013]
● This record features Caroline Davis, Charles Rumback and Jeff Swanson and is released on Ears and Eyes records.
You Can Be Mine (Fred Lonberg-Holm & Paal Nilssen Love) | Recording & Mixing [2012]
● This Improvised duet record was made in my first warehouse studio and is released on Bocian Records out of Warsaw Poland.
New Gospel (Marquis Hill) | Recording & Mixing [2011]
● This recording features Marquis Hill, Chris Madsen, Christopher McBride, Josh Moshier, Kenneth Oshodi, John Tate, and Jeremy Cunningham.
● Marquis Hill’s first record was self-released and recorded in my original studio.
www.chicagoIMC.org (co-founded with Tatsu Aoki) | Recording, Mix, Master, & Archival [2010-present]
● This online archive contains 30 hours of historically significant field recordings as well as 20 productions from between 2010 and today.
Fred Anderson Quartet Live at the Velvet Lounge I Record, Mix & Mastering [2008]
● This record features Chad Taylor, Francis Wong, Tatsu Aoki and is released on Asian Improv Arts records.
GRANTS & NOMINATIONS
Illinois Arts Council individual artist support winner [2023]
DCASE individual artist project award winner [2014, 2017, 2020 & 2022]
United States Artist Nominee [2020]
EDUCATOR
head of the music department Wolcott College Prep [2020-present]