This track is a part of my new album "Shadows of Fading Time”, which  creates immersive listening spaces infused with fragility, allowing the listener to freely project his inner films on a screen of sighs, melodic sketches and harmonic mirrors. 

It has been released by the British label Disco Gecko Recordings
https://discogecko.bandcamp.com

Indefinable Presence

Electronic music builds possible worlds, particular configurations of space and time. Sounds, harmonics, silences, dimensions and movements are all means to create virtual universes, with their physical laws, their geometry, their genesis and their evolution.

My album "Orion Nebula" invites listeners to an immersion in a cloud of cosmic light, color, gas and dust located in the heart of the Orion constellation.

The nine stages of this exploration are a weightless journey, in a multidimensional and moving space, crossed by mysterious sound objects which evolve, cross and move away in a stellar choreography.

My music does not tell stories. It describes worlds, with their physical and cosmological laws, between expansion in immense spaces and condensation in the flash of a listening.

It is up to each listener to unwind the threads of his or her listening, between dream and consciousness, between science and fiction, to lose himself or herself in the labyrinth of memories, ideas, sensations and images in order to create his or her own inner film on the soundtrack that I propose.

https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/christianwittman
https://www.cyclicaldreams.com/

Orion Nebula

Nursery Of Stars

What is ambient music?

It is an encounter with slowness, silence, the depth of listening, immersion in sound, navigation on sounds to dream, think, travel, imagine...

This music has accompanied me for years... The music I listen to, the music I create...

I had the chance to meet some of the musicians who influenced me the most, who are part of my life, of my personal soundscape...

Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell, but also the Germans, Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, Chris Franke...

This "Ambient Mapping" series is fed by my listening to Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Jon Hassell.

As well as the inspiration brought to me by the French designer Thierry Moreau, whose visual universe feeds my musical work.

"Ambient Mapping II" weaves different threads: silence, loops, sound spaces, "Fourth World" rhythms, possible melodies.

In this album, I experimented with geometrical compositional forms, superimposed, shifted, random, in different mixes distributing sounds, patterns, rhythms in an evolving space.

"Ambient Mapping II", like all my previous albums, proposes a music in which I am totally involved, with which I identify myself, a music which is the reflection of myself.

And I put this music, this reflection, at the risk of your listening, you with whom I share this new album ! 

https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-mapping-ii
https://linktr.ee/christianwittman

Ambient Mapping II

Line

My new album, "Music for Art Gallery I", is inspired by the world of contemporary art - sculptures, video installations, performances, painting - and invites you to a journey through some of the great art capitals of today, from New York to Amsterdam, from Berlin to Athens, from Rome to Los Angeles.

These eight compositions are both ambient and experimental, they are at the crossroads of minimalism, a certain acousmatic abstraction and sound design...

I tried to suggest through sound design the sensory, visual, tactile, spatial universe of contemporary art, with its surfaces, its materiality, its geometry, its perspective games, its architectures of lines and shapes.

"Music for Art Gallery I" is, in a way, a continuation of my album series "Ambient Mapping", "Sound Painting" and "Music for Installations".

It is an ambient music that unfolds contemplative atmospheres in a slow travelling of the gaze and the mind on virtual works, that the listener is invited to imagine...

https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-art-gallery-i
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REVIEWS

••• "Conceived as a multi-sensory experiential piece best suited for visual accompaniment of a gallery, the French artist Christian Wittman’s “Manhattan” is a lovely slice of experimental ambient work that finds its home in various nexuses of a venn diagram of several musical schools of thought. Of the piece, Wittman states, “I tried to suggest through sound design the sensory, visual, tactile, spatial universe of contemporary art, with its surfaces, its materiality, its geometry, its perspective games, its architectures of lines and shapes.” The resulting composition is one that is easy to get lost in - all the better to take while you stroll the MOMA or Whitney in Manhattan. "

Ryan HALL
Tome of the Weather Machine (tometotheweathermachine.com)

•• Great sounds and cool production. Beautiful arrangements.
I really enjoyed the ethereal and mysterious mood! (LISTNERD, about "Manhattan")

•• "Captivating soundscapes and floating atmosphere.." (Music for Home, about "Manhattan")


••• "CHRISTIAN WITTMAN – Music For Art Gallery
CHRISTIAN WITTMAN – Windy Lands

Two new albums of cosmic synth music, from the increasingly prolific French synthesist, and here you do indeed get two albums of original music without a rhythm in sight.

Of the two, “Art Gallery” is what you'd call the “busiest” as it features more of the piano/electric piano (I can never tell!!) with compositions ranging from just under 4, to over 7 minutes, and the depth of sound is fairly vast, for such a spacey album, so that, while there aren't huge arsenals of electronics, the textural qualities of the compositions, comes into play, so that it's got several layers on which to focus at any one time, layers that are constantly on the move, albeit slowly, and all the while, managing to retain every bit of emotion that you could wring out of such ethereal yet gorgeously compelling, spacetronic music.

“Windy Lands”, however, is an album that builds. Again, all cosmic, and this time more predominantly electronic, it starts very minimally, then, as the tracks progress, so the sonic canvas spreads out and stretches across the horizons, to reveal new textures, new layers and give the music more strength and depth, as it progresses, almost “orchestral”, in a minimal sense, on the final couple of tracks, and, overall, a worthy addition to the “Art” album, in that they come from the same beating heart, but travel in different directions."

ANDY GARIBALDI, Inkeys (UK)

Music for Art Gallery I

Manhattan

"Shamans (For Jon Hassell) is a track from my album "Frozen Lands", which draws its inspiration from the landscapes and vast frozen expanses of the Northern countries - Canada, Norway, Siberia, Iceland.

It is a music of atmospheres and climates, where I am experimenting with a new sound, a new aesthetic compared to my previous recordings.

"Frozen Lands" is at the confluence of the neo-classical minimalism of composers like Olafur Arnalds, of drones and hazy ambient soundscapes.

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

Frozen Lands

Shamans (For Jon Hassell)

I love deep, slow, immersive ambient music. And this is the music I know how to create...

"Quiet Music"  proposes a coherent and thoughtful journey through close and complementary sound climates.

The common point of these compositions is the slowness, the time to create a climate, to be immersed in it, to let it develop.

The common point of these compositions is also the quietude, the serenity, the immersion in possible and floating musics which make us forget, the time of a listening, the ugliness, the blackness of the world in which we live.

I am convinced that ambient music can envelop us, inspire us, like a backdrop for our waking dreams.

The first track of this album is dedicated to Vangelis, the master of us all, who made us dream, travel in countless dimensions.

The dream, the journey must continue...

Quiet Music

An Unexplained Melancholy

"Windy Lands" is the third opus of a climatic and ambient series started with the albums "Misty Lands" and "Frozen Lands".

This musical trilogy explores new aesthetic and sonic directions, inspired by the minimalist and neoclassical current represented by composers such as Ólafur Arnalds or Nils Frahm, but also by certain atmospheres of the ECM label.

With the contribution of string instruments and, on two tracks, of an electric guitar, "Windy Lands" would like to approach the expressivity of a small hybrid or mixed chamber music ensemble, between electronic soundscapes and acoustic sounds, thus reviving the experiments that we carried out in Lightwave, notably with the album "Bleue comme une orange".

Windy Lands

Stormy Sky (for Terje Rypdal)

"Nocturnes I" is the musical story of a night between dusk and dawn, accompanying thoughts, images, memories and sensations.

Minimalist, intimate musical landscapes, where electronic instruments and treatments gently suggest peace and serenity.

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.

"Nocturnes I" accompanies the quiet flight of consciousness into the dreamy heart of night.

Nocturnes I

Ethereal Lullaby

"Aurelia" is a track from my new album, "Dreams and Drones", that brings together ambient and atmospheric soundscapes inspired by the universe of French poet Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855), imbued with romanticism and mystery, exploring the landscapes of the unconscious in the mirror of ancient legends from the banks of the Rhine or elsewhere.

Between minimalism and sound immersion, these compositions are invitations to dream and travel through misty, solitary landscapes, populated by fairies and elves who still live on the other side of the mirrors of reality...

REVIEW

"Dreams and Drones is a very nice and equally interesting, as well as perhaps idiosyncratic result, if you let yourself be guided by his ideas and also still have the freedom to be able to push aside all constraints or expectations. Christian concentrates on what he does best - and you can feel this on -Dreams And Drones-!
On the 8 short pieces Christian lets the moods run free - they reflect the title of the album and that in quite versatile ways. The tension only subsides after the last sounds, from beginning to end this arc of tension remains. I feel this is a really great achievement to reflect these different moods in the brevity of the individual pieces.
For me the -Dreams And Drones- is one of the most versatile albums of Christian Wittman - out of the calmness and free without constraints.....

Absolutely recommended :-)"

Uwe Saße, Sequenzerwelten.de (www.sequenzerwelten.de/z_wittman.html)

Dreams and Drones

Aurelia

A demo track from my new album "Impressionnism" (work in progress)

Field Of Sunflowers (Preview)

Between dream and consciousness, deep sleep and waking, the city lights dance in the night sky...

Preview of my forthcoming album: "Nocturnes II

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https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com

Noxturnes II

"04:00 AM"   Preview of my forthcoming album "Nocturnes II"

"Astral Dream" is a track from my recent album "Apeiron".

"Apeiron" is a Greek word which, according to the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (6th century BC), designates the first element from which everything emerged, the primordial entity which generated the cosmos by successive splits.

The meaning of this word is still debated today: "infinite" or "indeterminate"? Literally: "without limit".

“Apeiron” was thus the founding concept of a bold rational cosmology, distinct from traditional myths, to explain the genesis of the universe, the earth, the ocean, the celestial sphere, the stars, physical phenomena and, of course, the emergence of life forms.

This starting point inspired me a form of contemplative and spiritual "space music", which attempts to reflect the mixture of imagination and intellectual speculation at work in this conquest of the universe by human thought.

With this album, I'm moving towards a more contemporary, hybrid sound and style, mixing electronic treatments and textures with processed human voices and classical instruments.

“Apeiron” is an attempt to explore new listening dimensions in the genre of electronic space music.

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Apeiron

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Founding member of the French band Lightwave, ambient musician, between space music, dark ambient, soundscapes, minimalism and modern classical.

Links: https://linktr.ee/christianwittman

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