Christian Wittman

Nice review of my album "Akousmata" in Audion Magazine (82, june 2025, p. 39)

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"Lateral" is a return to the roots: "Thursday Afternoon" and the other long ambient pieces accompanying Brian Eno's installations.
This is a slow, immersive music, with filtered sounds, that unfolds like a long, luminous, shimmering ribbon... Full review to read here: christianwittman.blogspot.com

The Revenant's soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto is subtly atmospheric, based on a sound design as sophisticated as it is minimalist, and blends perfectly with the film's desolate, twilight landscapes and its unforgettable plot.

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What is the sound language of "Akousmata"? What is my compositional process? What is the part of improvisation in my music? A short overview of my virtual studio? And where does Lightwave stands today?

Interview just online on my blog: christianwittman.blogspot.com

"Akousmata" is now released on all streaming and download platforms!

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"A wonderful release. For ambient, neo-classical and experimental lovers alike. Shades of Feldman in this. A great CD from a great label. Highest recommendation" (droneworks)

"Just finished first play of my copy and it was simply a stunning experience"

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Thank you very much @droneworks.bsky.social for your support!

CD sleeve for Christopher Wittman's new release 'Akousmata'.

Another incredible CD from @driftworks.bsky.social is gracing the room this #CDFriday. Akousmata by @cwittman-lightwave.bsky.social is as good as I'd hoped. For ambient, neo-classical and experimental lovers alike. Shades of Feldman in this. A great CD from a great label. Highest recommendation.

I'm fascinated by slowness, by time stretching out.

My ambient sound is time that stretches and fades slowly.

Reverberation creates comet-like tails for my sounds, crossing the skies of listening, of my listeners.

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My new album Akousmata is released on the label Driftworks.

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There are two limited editions of CDr, one of which comes in splendid, hand-crafted packaging

The artwork is like the music: mysterious, meditative, uncluttered, imbued with a certain spirituality.

Driftworks is thrilled to announce the pre-order release of Akousmata by @cwittman-lightwave.bsky.social , a founding member of Lightwave, the legendary French electronic duo.

Akousmata, his latest solo work, explores acoustic spaces through prepared piano, electronics and voices.

Coming very soon on Driftworks. A superb album by French, electronic artist, @cwittman-lightwave.bsky.social full of space and dynamics with prepared piano, electronics and voices. 25 Special Editions are available plus standard Cdr and of course, Digital. Get ready…

I’m thrilled to bring you Akousmata, the next Driftworks release by @cwittman-lightwave.bsky.social Prepared piano, electronics and voices excite the air of inner spaces. Special Editions, Cdrs and Digital

@driftworks.bsky.social next release explores acoustic spaces with the sounds of prepared piano, electronics and voices. "Akousmata" by Christian Wittman, invites listeners to lose themselves in architectures and dimensions where voices and harmonies, ritual bells and gongs slowly fade into silence.

"Lightwave, composed of Christoph Harbonnier and Christian Wittman, has left an indelible mark on ambient and electronic music. "Cités Analogues" is a masterpiece of kosmische and concrète, combining elements of analog synthesizers and location recordings to create expansive, dreamlike soundscapes."

... from the Berlin School early experiments to Brian Eno and Jon Hassell, from ECM and ECM New Series to French GRM and IRCAM. My current favorites: Brian Eno, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov...

Hans Zimmer says his music is “not original”: “My music is a subtotal of everything I've heard all my life” Hans Zimmer, the legendary composer behind some of the most iconic film scores of all time, has claimed that his music is “not original.”

Hans Zimmer says his music is “not original”: “My music is a subtotal of everything I’ve heard all my life”. It is so true... A musician's ear and vision are the results of a life-long listening history. My musical culture relies on classical, jazz, avant-garde music..
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Composing music, writing texts. Some thoughts and afterthoughts about the impact of technological changes on the processus of creation...

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Brian Eno's new album, "Aurum", is magnificent in its mastery and restraint, its sophistication in simplicity. A new sound poem, based on the ambient language whose grammar and vocabulary Eno defined decades ago... A great lesson in music... #Eno #ambient

‘Akousmata’ by @cwittman-lightwave.bsky.social an amazing album that explores spaces through prepared piano, electronics and voices.

Evanescent Shades Christian Wittman · Nocturnes I · Song · 2023

@listigeplaylists.bsky.social Ambient track: Evanescent Shades. Ambient music between wakefulness and sleep, at the threshold of dreams, when everything calms down and silence is woven in with the murmurs of the night. Link: open.spotify.com/intl-fr/trac...

"Misty Lands" is an invitation to a sonic journey into foggy landscapes, towards the Great North, where earth, water and air merge in vaporous and organic textures.

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"Frozen Lands" is a contemplative and introspective ambient album, slowly flying over the immense snowy expanses of the steppes and taigas in the Great North, mingling with the murmurs of the winds.

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Cassiopeia, by Christian Wittman 11 track album

The constellation Cassiopeia inspired my new musical project, under the sign of meditative contemplation and cosmological curiosity. I use a renewed sound palette, in the spirit of the abstract soundscapes of early Tangerine Dream. christianwittman.bandcamp.com/album/cassio...

"Whether they work in long or short form the duo make subtly shifting soundscapes that are unexpectedly intense in their realisation."/"The music is rather free-floating, voluminously reverberating, sonorously rumbling, striding along, mysteriously whispering or experimentally tinkering with sound."

Available as CD, vinyl and digital, our 1988 album is now released by #BureauB : lightwave-musique.bandcamp.com/album/cit-s-... — "Cités Analogues” is an interesting album with progressive French underground electronics". #ambient #modularsynths #Berlinschool

Hello, I left X and I joined Bluesky today. I am a founding member of the French ambient band #Lightwave and I am also a solo ambient composer. I am creating abstract and immersive music, with a strong emphasis on sound design #ambientmusic #soundscapes #spacemusic #electronicmusic #acousmatic