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Since their beginnings in 1985, the group LIGHTWAVE have followed a particular road on the map of « new music à la française”. Travelling from minimalism to electro-acoustic expression and to musical forms like electric trance, Lightwave is using the latest technology in order to reach sound spaces that are yet undiscovered.
The music resembles a sequence of sound adventures, or sound architecture, and takes the listener into a musical environment corresponding to that of a film, where he or she can invent their own scenario and images. Thanks to an approach to old and modern electronic music equipment which is both playful and intuitive, Lightwave explores a poetic and sensual world and plays with sound as one would be with colours, shapes, objects or dimensions of space. On stage as in the studio, they will prefer to create music which is both direct and interactive, compositions which grow while the listening and the exchange between musicians takes place, like in a jazz trio or an improvising string quartet.
In the course of the eight albums now on release (originally in France, Germany with ERDENKLANG and in the USA, Hearts of Space, Horizon Music respectively), the music develops freely, between concept and imagination, between geometry and a labyrinth. Acclaimed by the professionals, Lightwave’s music has also attracted big audiences in concert events and through spectacular sound installations, for example in the biggest industrial gas storage construction in Europe (Oberhausen, Germany) or in the depth of the Choranche caves in the French mountainous region of the Vercors.
Since 2001, Lightwave is signed to the label « Signatures » created by national Radio France Musiques, releasing first their album “Caryotype” and now a new production, called “Bleue comme une orange”, on release since January 2004.
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Fondé en 1985, le groupe / duo français LIGHTWAVE poursuit une trajectoire singulière et très personnelle sur la carte des musiques nouvelles à la française.
Grâce à une approche ludique et intuitive des anciennes et nouvelles lutheries électroniques, des matières sonores, LIGHTWAVE explore des mondes poétiques et sensuels, joue avec les sons comme avec des couleurs, des formes, des objets concrets ou des dimensions spatiales.
La musique du groupe s’apparente à une suite d’aventures et d’architectures sonores, évoluant librement entre le concept et l’imagination, entre la géométrie et le labyrinthe. plongeant l’auditeur dans un film dont il invente le scénario et les images.
Sur scène comme en studio, LIGHTWAVE privilégie le live électronique et acoustique, un jeu direct, une composition qui se bâtit dans l’écoute et l’échange comme un trio de jazz ou un quatuor à cordes.
Au fil de huit albums parus ( label SIGNATURE Radio France, ERDENKLANG - Allemagne, Hearts of Space et Horizon Music - USA..), dont les deux derniers sur le label Signature - France Musiques - de Radio-France, la musique de LIGHTWAVE a su aussi captiver de larges publics, dans des concerts évènements ou sous la forme d’installations sonores spectaculaires dans des sites industriels, géologiques et historiques.
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Member Since: 5/5/2007
Band Website: www.lightwave-musique.com
Band Members: Christian WITTMAN / Christoph HARBONNIER
and guests...
Paul Haslinger
Jacques Derégnaucourt
Renaud Pion
Pierre Chaze
Michel Redolfi
Jon Hassell
Hector Zazou

Discographie
Nachtmusik - 1990 / Erdenklang -GR
Tycho Brahé - 1993 / Hearts of Space -US
Mundus Subterraneus - 1994 / Hearts of Space
In der Unterwelt - 1996 / Plans Sonores
Uranography - 1996 / MSI
Cantus Umbrarum - 1999 / Horizon Music -US
Caryotype - 2001 / Signature Radio-France
Blue comme une orange - 2004 / Signature Radio-France
Tycho Brahé - 2006 / Horizon Music -US/ new edition
Mundus Subterraneus - 2006 / Horizon Music -US/ new edition
Collaborations
Nunc Music - Compilation - 1991 / TacDisc -FR
Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses- Herctor Zazou - 1991 / Phonogram-FR
Sahara Blue- Herctor Zazou - 1992 / Crammed Disc
From here to Tranquility - Compilation - 1992 / Silent Records -US
Magic Age II- Compilation - 1992 / Erdenklang -GR
Chansons des Mers Froides- Herctor Zazou - 1995 / Columbia Sony
Infinite Horizon - Compilation - 1998 / Horizon Music -US
Cryosphere - Compilation - 2006 / Glacial Movements -ITAL
No Vacancy - Paul Haslinger - 2007 / SoundTrack remix / Temps Perdu /CD Label Commotion

Influences: LIGHTWAVE - slides and videos in concert
Record Label: ERDENKLANG - Radio France SIGNATURE- HORIZON MUSIC
Type of Label: Indie

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