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Oberhausen Gasometer (Germany) 1996 line up: Christoph Harbonnier, Christian Wittman, Jacques Derégnaucourt. Special guest: Susan Belling (vocals). Live sound engineering: Denis Streibig, Michel Geiss. "Ich Phoenix" was an International Art festival organized in the Oberhausen Gasometer, one of the largest industrial Gasometers in Europe, which is now a Cultural Center. French artists Anne and Patrick Poirier were commissionned for an interactive installation on the floor level of the Gasometer. Anne and Patrick asked Lightwave to conceive the original soundscape and musical events of this interactive installation as well as the technical set up and the PA system. All the technical set up and the electronic engineering were conceived by Michel Geiss, and were built inside the Gasometer by Patrick Pelamourgue, Jean-Michel Jarre's main studio technician. A special CD "In der Unterwelt" was released with some samples of Lightwave's music that evolved and changed during 6 months, according to the interaction with the thousand of visitors. Lightwave was invited to play a live concert in the upper part of the Gasometer (with a 90 meter high roof). In this unique industrial place, with incredible acoustic properties (echoes, reverberation), Lightwave gave a world première of its work in progress, the Lowell opera. With a multichannel sound system, Lightwave played with the American opera singer Susan Belling (S'Ange). The result was an electronic space opera devoted to the American astronomer Percival Lowell who discovered the canals on Mars. Lightwave is still working on this project for a future CD release.In der Unterwelt <------------ BACK