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....
I hope to initiate a collaboration with art galleries and contemporary artists to inscribe my sound research in real places
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
— Music For Art Gallery and 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)
