Music for Slow Motion  Dance

Christian Wittman

 “I’ve been meaning to write to tell you how good "Music for Slow Motion Dance" is: an unassuming little masterpiece.”  (Stephen Hill, Hearts of Space Radio Program)


Following on from an experiment carried out a few years ago by Lightwave with Popdreams, a street dance and slow motion company, this ambient, minimalist album was conceived to accompany experimental, contemporary choreographies based on the slowness and fluidity of movements and postures, between the techniques of mime, moon walking and butō theater.

The concept behind this album is slowness, time stretched out, suspended, like a film in slow motion, where gestures and movements become a weightless choreography...

I composed this album with the gestures and expressivity of butō performers in my mind's eye, in a space-time other than our own, inviting us to think differently about our relationship to the body and the soul, to movement, but also to looking and listening...

This ambient album is an invitation to slow down and free ourselves from gravity, to reach the lightness of lunar angels...

“I’ve been meaning to write to tell you how good "Music for Slow Motion Dance" is: an unassuming little masterpiece.” (Stephen Hill, Hearts of Space Radio Program)
Following on from an experiment carried out a few years ago by Lightwave with Popdreams, a street dance and slow motion company, this ambient, minimalist album was conceived to accompany experimental, contemporary choreographies based on the slowness and fluidity of movements and postures, between the techniques of mime, moon walking and butō theater.
The concept behind this album is slowness, time stretched out, suspended, like a film in slow motion, where gestures and movements become a weightless choreography...
I composed this album with the gestures and expressivity of butō performers in my mind's eye, in a space-time other than our own, inviting us to think differently about our relationship to the body and the soul, to movement, but also to looking and listening...
This ambient album is an invitation to slow down and free ourselves from gravity, to reach the lightness of lunar angels...

Music for Slow Motion  Dance by Christian Wittman

Tension : Extension (Original Mix)

Tension : Extension

No Gravity. Pt. 1 (Original Mix)

No Gravity. Pt. 1

Time Stretching (Original Mix)

Time Stretching

Endless glissendi (Original Mix)

Endless glissendi

No Gravity. Pt. 2 (Original Mix)

No Gravity. Pt. 2

Levitation (Original Mix)

Levitation

Suspended Motion (Original Mix)

Suspended Motion

No Gravity (Extended Version) (Extended Version)

No Gravity (Extended Version)(Extended Version) by Christian Wittman

No Gravity (Extended Version)

Twilight

Between day and night, the time of twilight begins...
A slow fade of light, shadow and color, as the city lights awaken from their daytime torpor.

Between wakefulness and sleep lies the time of twilight...
A silent film of memories, sensations and thoughts, which this musical project attempts to set to sound...

Imbued with a gentle melancholy, this intimate ambient journey to the threshold of night explores the confines of silence, sculpted by slow melodies...

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REVIEWS

•• About "Playing This Old Lullaby One More Time".
"This track impressed me with its atmosphere and sound research.
The piano is almost a sweet music box that expresses itself slowly and quietly. Surrounding it is this very searching sound palette where, in addition to these very glacial and subtle strings, I really liked this sound that refers to some kind of burning fire or maybe the sea!
Excellent!!!" (The Hand Editions, playlists curator)

•• About "Orange Sky"
"I listened to your track and found it interesting.
The aspect that struck me the most is this tending dreamy and suspended atmosphere that you wanted to create. Another aspect that struck me is this sonic and timbral research where I also found the management of effects and mixing interesting.
Thanks to this combination of very good mixing with this suspended music, the whole thing takes on a delicate and very interesting character." (The Hand Editions, playlists curator)  

Between day and night, the time of twilight begins...
A slow fade of light, shadow and color, as the city lights awaken from their daytime torpor.
Between wakefulness and sleep lies the time of twilight...
A silent film of memories, sensations and thoughts, which this musical project attempts to set to sound...
Imbued with a gentle melancholy, this intimate ambient journey to the threshold of night explores the confines of silence, sculpted by slow melodies...
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REVIEWS
•• About "Playing This Old Lullaby One More Time".
"This track impressed me with its atmosphere and sound research.
The piano is almost a sweet music box that expresses itself slowly and quietly. Surrounding it is this very searching sound palette where, in addition to these very glacial and subtle strings, I really liked this sound that refers to some kind of burning fire or maybe the sea!
Excellent!!!" (The Hand Editions, playlists curator)
•• About "Orange Sky"
"I listened to your track and found it interesting.
The aspect that struck me the most is this tending dreamy and suspended atmosphere that you wanted to create. Another aspect that struck me is this sonic and timbral research where I also found the management of effects and mixing interesting.
Thanks to this combination of very good mixing with this suspended music, the whole thing takes on a delicate and very interesting character." (The Hand Editions, playlists curator)

Orange Sky (Original Mix)

Orange Sky

Shimmering Lights (Original Mix)

Shimmering Lights

Vanishing Sun (Original Mix)

Vanishing Sun

The Night is Coming (Original Mix)

The Night is Coming

A Twilight should never end (Original Mix)

A Twilight should never end by Christian Wittman

A Twilight should never end

Stillness (Original Mix)

Stillness

Moon Light (Original Mix)

Moon Light

Playing This Old Lullaby one more time (Original Mix)

Playing This Old Lullaby one more time by Christian Wittman

Playing This Old Lullaby one more time

Lemniscate (The Sessions)

Ämpers@nd

Making this EP felt like music therapy to me. The overall feeling is melancholic and (a lot of) brooding tension. The tracks just 'flowed out of me' and in some way it almost seemed like they created themselves. I consider these productions as my 'soul-searching' endeavour and a personal soundtrack.

Making this EP felt like music therapy to me. The overall feeling is melancholic and (a lot of) brooding tension. The tracks just 'flowed out of me' and in some way it almost seemed like they created themselves. I consider these productions as my 'soul-searching' endeavour and a personal soundtrack.

Slowly Getting Heavier; Faltering Eyelids (Original Mix)

Slowly Getting Heavier; Faltering Eyelids by Ämpers@nd

Slowly Getting Heavier; Faltering Eyelids

Frozen Dissolution; Trapped Under Ice (Original Mix)

Frozen Dissolution; Trapped Under Ice by Ämpers@nd

Frozen Dissolution; Trapped Under Ice

Hypnopompia; Wake Up (Original Mix)

Hypnopompia; Wake Up

Dreamy Meditations (Original Mix)

Dreamy Meditations

Floating Mind (Original Mix)

Floating Mind

The Final Journey

Rudolf Steiners Project

The melancholic music, draped in minor chords, ends up in the embrace of a major tonality.

The melancholic music, draped in minor chords, ends up in the embrace of a major tonality.

The Final Journey by Rudolf Steiners Project

Final Journey

Brittle Stars

Time Rival

This is a short collection of ambient works that I used as a way to get acclimated to my new studio space. Each track uses the same instrumentation and effects, just in slightly different ways.

credits
released April 5, 2019

Written, produced and mastered by Michael Southard

This is a short collection of ambient works that I used as a way to get acclimated to my new studio space. Each track uses the same instrumentation and effects, just in slightly different ways.
credits
released April 5, 2019
Written, produced and mastered by Michael Southard

Cambrian Explosion

Koruna (Somewhat Softly)

Koruna

Echinoderm

Cyan

Hold You

Originally released on Scenic Rhythms

Written, produced & mastered by Michael Southard

Originally released on Scenic Rhythms
Written, produced &amp; mastered by Michael Southard