"Orpheus, Pt. 3": Review by Beatradar

 

 

 Link to Beatradar

Work in Progress: "Evanescence"

 

I am working on my next album project, "Evanescence".... Listening again and again to the eight tracks recorded. Correcting mixes, trying different level balances. Changing the order of the tracks: which one is the best, the most efficient? 

 

Fine tuning the tracks titles... Words matter... 

 

Should I include "Edge of Oblivion" or not, as a second or as a third track? Listening again and again, with hi-fi loudspeakers, with my headphones...

 

I love this album... I don't know if anyone else will love it...

 

I think it is a step in a musical quest that makes sense...

 

No one of my ambient albums is the same...

 

I feel I go further, deeper, elsewhere...

 

Listening again and again...

 

Where does this music come from? Where does it go?

 

Why does this music matter so much for me?

 

What am I trying to express through it?

 

Music is the mirror of a soul.

 

Of the soul of the composer.

 

Of the soul of the listener.

 

I love so much the music of "Evanescence"...

 

"Lines" (from "Ambient Mapping II") featured in Hearts of Space Playlist!

 

 

 Wandering the endless hallways of Ambient Cool

After the burn of our increasingly intense summers—now featuring epic fires and floods in the wake of biblical storms and record-breaking heat waves—we emerge into the relatively cooler, quieter atmosphere and deflationary energy of early autumn. It's a time to regroup, recharge, rebuild, harvest, and prepare for the challenges of the winter season to come.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space from Canadian guest producer DAVID J. EGAN, a journey down the endless monochromatic hallways, complex timbres and metallic overtones of Ambient Cool, on a program called SUMMER'S END 2.

Egan has an extensive catalog of shows on his Mixcloud channel "The Armchair Traveler" at www.mixcloud.com/the-armchair-traveler

 

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My music is a mirror....

 

Can I put into words what I'm trying to express and convey in my music?

I think music is a mirror.

A paradoxical mirror with two sides.

One side reflects the composer, his state of mind, his sensitivity, his personality.

The other side reflects the listener.

So, my music reflects me.

Questioning, sometimes melancholy, an introspective itinerary, an existential quest, a taste for abstraction and experimentation, a desire for horizons, even unattainable horizons, in short, a desire.

There's also a desire to create possible harmonics, sonic and rhythmic worlds, microscosms with their own laws of gravitation...

My musical project is undoubtedly also a desire to escape, a longing for somewhere else...

My music lies at the crossroads of an intellectual quest and an imaginary desire...

How can I say who I am, who I think I am, who I imagine I am, other than through soundscapes where the power of words abolishes itself in the wake of the senses...?

 

Review of "Nocturnes I" and "Shadows of Fading Time"

 

Thanks to Alan Freeman!

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Review of "The Light Before the Dark" and "Far Away"

 Many thanks to Uwe Saße  at SequenzerWelten for his nice reviews of my music!

Christian Wittman - The Light Before The Dark

 

....is just a title that reflects the thoughts during the twilight - dreamy and melancholic.
Improvised and implemented....just beautiful :-)

Christian Wittman - Far Away

 

No album is like the other - and that's what I like so much about Christian Wittman's music :-)
-Far Away- consists of three short pieces, on which Christian's journey into space is depicted again in a wonderful way. The thoughts thereby, from which factors space or cosmic music consists, Christian leaves open in his short texts on his Bandcamp page each time and thereby the necessary free space for the own fantasy.

It takes us again and again into unknown galaxies - with new effects, or even choral singing, which sounds really good!

It's always a great experience to accompany Christian on these journeys....

Works in Progress

 I use the "draft" section of my Bandcamp page for various album projects in progress, before their public release.

It's a way for me to listen, test, experiment with track order, to correct mixes, to consolidate concepts and to fix track titles.

I currently have eight albums in this transitional zone.

Four albums are completed, from my point of view, and ready for release.

Four other albums are under construction, and as my studio sessions progress, and after an initial filtering of the finalized tracks, I direct this or that track towards a particular album.

All these albums differ in concept, musical style and sound aesthetic.

In this way, I can diversify my musical work in different directions.

It's only after numerous re-listenings, corrections and retouching that I consider an album ready to be released and to go out and meet its listeners.

I listen to them over and over again, at different times of the day....

It's a bit like my secret workshop...

A creative electronic musician must be a hacker...

 

Thinking about it (a little...), I realize that today's electronic musician has countless virtual instruments, sound banks and plug-ins to program and parameterize...

But at the same time, as far as I'm concerned, I don't see myself as a programmer or an engineer...

More like a craftsman, or even a do-it-yourselfer.

In this new digital and computerized environment, driven by algorithms, I want to reintroduce chance and accident, intuition rather than calculation, the imperfection of gesture rather than the perfect geometry imposed by DAW grids.

In the way I make electronic music, from the facades of my modular synthesizers of yesterday to the screens of my computers of today, it's basically chance and accident, human intuition rather than machine logic, the risks of improvisation rather than the security of programming that matter.

There's a playful dimension to the way I create my music: bending the rules, forcing chance, rolling the sound dice until I get the most improbable combinations.

For me, a creative electronic musician must be a hacker of the technologies that constrain him: a smuggler, a poacher, a pirate, a gambler...

25% Discount on all my Bandcamp Discography! (until September 22)

 Dear friends and followers,

To thank you for your loyalty and interest in my music, I'm offering you a 25% discount code on ALL my albums (except "Shadows of Fading Time" on Disco Gecko).

Do you like Ambient Soundscapes à la Brian Eno and Harold Budd?

Hybrid ambient music that blends electronics and acoustic textures, à la Ólafur Arnalds?

Atmospheric space music in the style of early Tangerine Dream albums?

Or abstract ambient, combining sound design and a certain experimental touch?

In the pages of my blog, you'll find four "orientation tables" enabling you to browse my discography according to these broad categories:

https://christianwittman.blogspot.com/      (links to pages in the right-hand column).

As always, I welcome your feedback and your impressions of my music.

For an independent musician like me, the direct link with my community of listeners is the most important thing.

By purchasing on Bandcamp, you're helping to support a creative approach that's uncompromisingly honest...

Discount Code: ambient4all

expires on 9/22/2023

link: https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com

Thank you very much and see you soon for new electronic journeys!

Christian

ORPHEUS is available on all Streaming and Download Platforms!