Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987

"With the Sonic Waters project initiated in 1978, my aim was to situate the field of electronic music within a liberating and futuristic experience, outside the concert halls and in sync with the development of new instruments - in particular the Synclavier digital synthesizer, the first model of which I acquired in 1977. As a concert space, the Pacific Ocean seemed to me to be the ideal experimental medium for both acoustic and cultural reasons. I then developed the aesthetic and technical elements that would contribute to the conception of Underwater Music.

Numerous performances would follow spanning four decades, in natural sites or in large public pools such as those of Sydney, Paris or Venice during the 2006 Biennale.

I've divided this album into two fields: Sonic Waters: Music for Fresh Water (1981) and Sonic Waters: Music for Salt Water (1979-1987)" - Michel