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Ici & Maintenant FM Radio (Paris) 1988
Line up: Christoph Harbonnier, Christian Wittman. Special guest: Bruno Heuzé (additional keyboards).
For several months Lightwave worked as a duo, composed of Christoph and
Christian, which still remains the central nucleus of the band. We worked
on our first concept cassette-album: "Cités analogues". We experimented
with new methods of composition, involving tapes manipulation, ambient
field-recordings. Our new concert in the "Ici & Maintenant" studio was a
very special event. During the afternoon, we played a live "première"
version of "Cités Analogues." During a heavy promotional campaign, the
audience of the FM radio was invited to gather on the Piazza of the Centre
Georges Pompidou, and to bring with them FM radio receivers in order to
create the surface PA system of the concert. Around 2,000 people came with
their radios -- there were big and small loudspeakers, mono and stereo,
with various sonic colors, and various balance of bass and treble. When we
started to play in the radio studio, a huge sound was heard on the Centre
Pompidou piazza, with one of the craziest multichannel PA systems ever
conceived for a live electronic performance. The audience was surrounding
the Popdreams dancers with their slow motion show. At the end of the
concert, we programmed a random ambient atmosphere, with echoes, and
sample- and-hold sounds generated by our Modular synthesizers, and we went
out of the studio, very close to the Centre Pompidou, to have a look at
what was happening. The Piazza was very crowded, and thousand of listeners
were surrounded by our electronic sounds, coming from the small
loudpseakers of the radios receivers, in a surrealist atmosphere.
During the evening, we started a new whole night concert live in the FM
radio studio. The music was mostly improvised. Bruno Heuzé joined us as a
guest musician. After this concert, he joined the band as a full time
member. Parts of the music were released in a cassette production,
"Ici Maintenant" .
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