Classical and contemporary music have played, and continue to play, an
important role in my musical universe: chamber music in particular, for
string quartet, woodwind and wind ensembles.
I love the purity of sound and instrumental lines, and in contemporary
music, harmonic explorations that sometimes border on dissonance...
The experimental dimension lies in the writing and the choices of
instrumental playing, a set of constraints in relation to the infinitely
open palette of electronic instruments.
“Ambient Chamber Music” is an extension of this fascination, an attempt
to blend textures and sound spaces, and to approach the expressivity of a
small mixed electro-acoustic ensemble, crossing both minimalist and
contemporary threads.
I tried to imagine a small ensemble of musicians, strings, winds and
electronics playing and composing in mutual listening, following open
scores, where writing coexists with improvisation.
This is basically how Lightwave has functioned, in its various
configurations, around the core of Christoph Harbonnier and myself, not
forgetting the important creative contributions of Renaud Pion, Jacques
Derégnaucourt and Paul Haslinger, trying to approach the intuitive
interactions of a small classical formation and the freedom of a jazz trio or quartet...
“Ambient Chamber Music” is a new stage in one of the parallel paths I
intend to follow from now on. A chamber music oscillating between
electro-acoustic and mixed music, sculpting ambient sound objects that
unfold adventurous listening spaces...
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