Recorded Thursday afternoon, 17th of November 2022.

Beyond the Occipital Cortex

Prone

A futuristic, space'y/ambient take on classical music - featuring sounds reminiscent of trumpet fanfares, swelling woodwind runs, and sections of bombastic bass brass.

This is generative-based music made with Max MSP + Ableton Live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0GjoKKEz0

Seagull Bits

... The writer sits alone in his chair writing. His room is dimly lit, and there, only the sound of his typewriter can be heard. The man himself is unassuming. In the writer's head, though, exist stories of the most grandiose variety. I swear, I could hear an orchestra amidst the dead silence of the room...

Sounds like a modern take on classical music - featuring sounds reminiscent of solo clarinet, off-stage trumpet, string and woodwind section sound, and bombastic bass brass.

classical, neo-classical, "film score", “soundtrack”, experimental, electronic, ambient.

This is generative-based music made with Max MSP + Ableton Live.

https://youtu.be/bvLK0k4qmJ0

The Writer

A beautifully dark, cinematic mood - evoking some scene of heart wrenching aftermath - evolves caringly, and culminates with a heart-on-the-sleeve moment.

This piece emerges from my ongoing effort towards generative ambient soundscapes, but also features a very prominent, and fairly un-cut sample from Samia's "Is There Something in the Movies?" The way she is absolutely yelling this part gets me big time. I did not plan to use this sample when I started writing the piece, but it fit so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDRKh759v8

there IS something in the movies.

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

Field Of Sunflowers (Preview)

"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

1. Astral Dream

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

Links: https://linktr.ee/christianwittman

1. Astral Dream

Christian Wittman

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