Reconsidering Space Music: A Work in Progress

 

I'm currently working on a new album project, The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

This album draws its inspiration and artwork from a vintage book by a woman, Agnes Giberne, under this title, published in Cincinnati in 1898.

This was the heyday of imaginative, conquering and speculative astronomy, a telescopic astronomy, driven by such great figures as Jules Vernes, Camille Flammarion, Percival Lowell...

This detour into late 19th-century astronomy frees me from the stereotypes of space music or cosmic music of the early 21st century.

In these compositions, I have sought to reconnect with a fascination for space, where science and imagination, dreams and observations intertwine, to create a new language: a language to describe celestial immensities, a visual language to represent them in the form of drawings and engravings, and of course a musical language to express the moods of an earthly observer lost in cosmic infinity via a telescope.

My music explores these infinite spaces, following the threads of sensations, thoughts, memories and feelings of an observer lost in the meanders of a cosmic reverie...

Christian Wittman · Expanding Galaxies