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First Festival Crystal Lake / Paris 1985
The founding concert of Lightwave took place in the Cultural Center at Châtenay-Malabry.
Line up: Laurent Bozec, Serge Leroy, Christian Wittman.  

A lot of preparation went into the performance, with a complex backing tape 
mixed in a professional studio. Instruments were only old analogic modular 
systems (VCS 3, Roland System 700, Arp 2600). Laurent's VCS 3 went out 
of control after a few minutes, and Serge and Christian had to continually 
increase the output level of their mixing desks to hear what they were playing. 
As a result,  the whole performance was a sonic maelstrom, somewhere between 
industrial-trash-post apocalyptic music, hard rock, noise, undelicate chamber 
music, amplified hooter and permanent foghorn. French electronic veterans 
Yvan Coaquette and Annanka Raghel (Musica Electronica Viva,
Fondation, Spacecraft) attending the performance told us that they enjoyed it a lot, 
because it reminded them the very first days of Musica Electronica Viva, 
when they played concerts using only large metallic oil-cans with hammers 
and microphones, various processing devices and a huge PA system. 
Our concert was played in the dark and was probably a bit traumatic for the listeners 
and eventually for the players themselves. At the end of the concert, the audience 
kept totally silent for three minutes.

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