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Fragile

by Christian Wittman

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Aurora 06:16
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Ephemeral Feelings 06:28
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A Smile After the Tears 03:52
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Flowers Don't Last For Ever... 09:30
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Unstable Equilibrium 06:45
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Transient Melancholy 07:26
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A Fragile Horizon 06:33
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Memories of what is to come 06:00
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Residual Harmonics 07:59
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"Fragile".

Several listeners and reviewers have written that there is something "fragile" about my music.

I think their comment is right.

There is something "fragile" in my music, which is about breathing, sighing, silence, hesitation.

This "fragile" side is also due to the fact that I try to reach a purified sound, minimal at times, both essential and necessary, following the inner vibrations of my sensitivity and my inspiration, even of my breathing...

I do not seek, I do not seek any more a massive sound, a "big electronic sound". I don't want to impress... I want to touch the listener...

I look for the purity, the breath, the sigh, the resonances which linger, the traces of the music when it is on the threshold of silence.

"Fragile", no doubt also, because my music reflects states of mind, moments of doubt, sadness, questioning, despair sometimes, but also, as Homer said, moments of smile mixed with tears, where the hope of a new day comes to dissipate the anguish of the deep night.

No serious or profound music, felt and thought from the depths of a soul, remains on the surface of things.

It is both questions and answers. Doubts and certainties. Sorrows and hopes.

Music is not about technique.

It has to do with the exploration and the sharing of the depths.

Its formal and existential fragility are the source of its power.

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released March 2, 2023

Electronics, sound design: Christian Wittman.

Special guest: The Warburg String Quartet.

Artwork: original photo by Kim Dae Jeung (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication).

Recorded and produced at Nina Studio, Paris, January/February 2023.

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Christian Wittman France

I am one of the founding members of the French group LIGHTWAVE, which has been tracing a unique creative path in the field of electronic and ambient music since the 1980s.

This Bandcamp page is dedicated to my solo work.

My music is at the crossroads of ambient music and "atmospheric classical" with a strong emphasis on sound design and climates.

Contact: wittman.christian [at] gmail.com ... more

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