Lightwave

Artist: Lightwave
P: 2000
"Cantus Umbrarum" is a poetical exploration of the Underworld, the world of shades, or stones, of memory and of oblivion. William Shelley, Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Dante, Victor Hugo sometimes appear among the rocks, the subterranean rivers and lakes: a poetical landscape is mixed with a typical Lightwave soundscape, enriched with a touch of melody. Athanasius Kircher is certainly hidden somewhere among the rocks. Music of the deep and of the dark, music of the night and of the mineral world, "Cantus" remains the craziest project we ever achieved.
As a special bonus track, the CD contains one of the 14 live concerts we played within the cave, at the end of the subterranean promenade of the audience. Close your eyes, imagine a gorgeous subterranean lake with green deep waters, some blue lights against thousand of stalactites.
Nearly 600 meters of galleries were equipped with loudspeakers and thanks to a special multi channel sound system, the audience was walking along the galleries at the rhythm of our music, slowly shifting from one loudspeaker to the other, with many spatial effects. Several thousand of people enjoyed the experience, during a whole week.
"Cantus Umbrarum" was composed for a performance in the subterranean caves of Choranche in the Vercors mountains in France, in 1996.
Christian Wittman - electronics, sound design
Christoph Harbonnier - electronics, sound design
Jacques Derégnaucourt - electronics, sound design, violin soprano, alto
Renaud Pion - bass clarinet, turkish clarinet, bass flute, Cho-Wu flute, EWI, electronics
Marie-Christine Letort, Jean-Luc Revol, John Greaves, Eric Theobald, Christian Wittman - voices.

Artist: Lightwave
P: 1996
Music for the Gasometer Installation in 1996.

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Artist: Lightwave
P: 1994 / 2006
Mundus Subterraneus is based on a book by Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Roman scholar. Kircher was obsessed in exploring the natural phenomena of the earth. His interest in volcanoes was such that he once had himself lowered into the crater of Mt. Vesuvius -- shortly before it erupted!
The music on the Mundus Subterraneus CD is dark and rather atonal, but there's a lot going on beneath the surface. The whole thing sounds great over headphones!

Artist: Lightwave
P: 1995
Mundus Subterraneus is based on a book by Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Roman scholar. Kircher was obsessed in exploring the natural phenomena of the earth. His interest in volcanoes was such that he once had himself lowered into the crater of Mt. Vesuvius -- shortly before it erupted!
The music on the Mundus Subterraneus CD is dark and rather atonal, but there's a lot going on beneath the surface. The whole thing sounds great over headphones!

Artist: Lightwave
P: 1990
A blend of different kinds of synthesizers from analog modulars to digital instruments, LIGHTWAVE occupies a special place in the field of electronic music; by the very nature of sounds and the variety of atmospheres, by the special role given to sound processing and by the technique used in playing the music and using joint composition comparable to a real work of art or a sonic sculpture.
"Floating music, deep meditation, night music; music of the imagination between sleep and dreams, into a tainted, privileged state of awareness where connections are made and broken between beings, the world, sound and silence." Dreams meet up with the turning points of memory. Liquid masses of electronic tones move slowly; ghosts trains collide while a lunar keyboard sound drifts in the night. A series of changing atmospheres and landscapes, sand dunes and sleeping swamps. A journey on synthetic waves: filters and oscillators sculpt electricity, build strange towers that mark out the roads to dreams, in a crescendo of sound and substance. Anxious waiting, a look at the horizon, a piano becomes impatient on a background of underwater explosions. The ocean's wave of serenity finally breaks, a chorus and chords of a hidden symphony. It was just another dream, somewhere, the other side of the night.
LIGHTWAVE - Christoph Harbonnier and Christian Wittman - are living in Paris. The digital mix has been done by Michel Geiss, Jean-Michel Jarre 's main partner as musician and soundengineer.

Artist: Lightwave
P: 1994 / 2006
First cut, "Uraniborg" is very much in the style of Schulze, using violin as the main voicing instrument with brooding synths wafting in and out, and between L & R channels. It also shares some of the brooding of Roach's work on "Streams and Currents".  Some common elements with Jonn Serrie's more brooding work, without purcussion.
Second Piece, "Mapping the Sky" is more like Serrie's space music, or like David Lange's "Return of the Comet" in places, with airy wisps of strings and of a light acoustic piano melody. However, Lightwave doesn't rely on major chord structures behind a melody as much a Lange did on his Comet album pieces. The work is more atonal in the Roach vein (Projeckt 2000's work).
3rd, Cathedral, slightly atonal, in the vein of Schulze and TaDream. Strings/violin and main voice, as Schulze, with pulsating backdrop of synth bass, like TDs' "Zeit" in places, which doesn't follow a rhythm per se.
The other pieces are variations on these motifs. The approach is unique, but if you know the work of Klause Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Jonn Serrie... you get the idea of what type of music this is. If you like these other groups, you'll like this ambient soundscape of really interesting space music.

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 2007
This is the soundtrackscore to the movie Vacancy. In addition, this CD contains a remix of a track made by Lightwave Christoph Harbonnier,a remix made by Lustmord and a remix by Michael Fakesch.

Artist: Lightwave, Oöphoi, TUU, u.a.
P: 2006
LTD 300
Cryosphere is a musical journey that transports the listener into glacial and unexplored lands where icebergs collide and where everything is frozen.

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